<div class='node-body'><p>Bradley Manning, the twenty-four year old Army private accused of leaking thousands of classified documents, including footage of a helicopter raid that killed innocent civilians in Iraq, is one step closer to a full military court martial this afternoon.</p>
<p><strong>Agence France-Presse</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h0jJwzCXlnVb7aDDV3b3gp9T7DeA?docId=CNG.140d0aa1e4b9fa1f6d9de393aaae039f.5f1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">reports</a></strong>:</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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