Originally Posted By: Mithus
For his outstanding courage and bravery in exposing war crimes, we the undersigned nominate Bradley Manning, Private First Class of the U.S. Army for the Nobel Peace Prize of 2011. We recognize that throughout history states, organizations and people fearing reprisals are reluctant to confront powerful, militarized states that commit war crimes. But a young man, Bradley Manning, acted on his conscience when others could not or would not do so.

A 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst, Pfc. Manning faces decades in prison for allegedly leaking a video of a US helicopter attack that killed at least eleven Iraqi civilians to the website Wikileaks. Among the dead were two working Reuters reporters. Two children were also severely wounded in the attack.

Bradley Manning, acted in accordance with the United States Uniform Code of Military Justice under which it is his duty to obey lawful orders but likewise he must refuse to obey orders that are in direct violation of the US Constitution. The leaks document war crimes.


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Wikileaks doesn’t identify its source for the logs. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, who’s being held on charges of leaking some classified material to Wikileaks, claimed in online chats to have leaked a much larger database from the war in Iraq, covering a half-a-million events from 2004 through 2009.

Like the Afghan database, the Iraq database purportedly contains latitude-and-longitude information, timestamps and casualty figures, according to the description Manning gave ex-hacker Adrian Lamo

The Information highlighted ALONE could give an enemy very valuable information of how,when,where and time to attack. Wikileaks gave Classified information. If Manning didn't think it was right to do his job, he should have said so. He would have been removed end of story. He put lives at risk, by leaking this BEFORE the war was over.

This is all a bullshit scam with the Nobel PEACE prize. Give the fucking peace prize to the men in Seal Team Six that killed Bin Laden, they did more for peace than this Manning kid could ever do.

Last edited by Wolfgang; 10/05/11 04:14 PM.