Accused whistle-blower Bradley Manning was born in the US on 17 December 1987 to a Welsh mother and American father. He lived in Wales for three years as a teenager and his Mum and other relatives still live in Wales. More background in this previous article. Manning’s military pre-trial ‘Article 32′ hearing in Maryland USA concluded just before Christmas after nearly 19 months of detention and at least nine months of torture; he remains in prison waiting to find out if the state will pursue a court martial against him. Whatever happens, Bradley Manning needs our continued visible and vocal support here in Wales in the coming weeks and months. Can you help?Having joined the US army in 2007 as an intelligence analyst, Bradley was arrested in Iraq on suspicion of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks and has been held in detention without trial since. He stands accused of leaking the Collateral Murder video, footage which shows unarmed civilians being killed by US soldiers and which the US military had covered up, also the Afghan War Diary, described by the New York Times as "an unvarnished and grim picture of the Afghan war", the award-winning Iraq War Logs that reveal human rights abuses by coalition and Iraqi forces and hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables from US Embassies around the world that have proved highly embarrassing and revealing.

