<div class='node-body'><p>A U.S. military judge is refusing to dismiss eight of the 22 counts against Bradley Manning, the US Army private charged in a leak of US government secrets.</p>
<p>The material, much of it published between April and November 2010, included videos of a 2007 helicopter gun attack in Baghdad and the 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan, 250,000 United States diplomatic cables, and 500,000 army reports that came to be known as the Iraq and Afghan War logs.</p>
<p>Col. Denise Lind made the ruling Friday during a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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