Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire Editor, covering an anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 25, 2003 (BBC Photograph)., a photo by Pan-African News Wire Photo File on Flickr.
To listen to the statement by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, on the trial of Private Bradley Manning, just click on the website below:
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/307083.html
U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, accused of the largest intelligence leak in the U.S. history, only exposed “war crimes being committed on a very high level” by U.S. military, says Abayomi Azikiwe, Detroit-based editor of Pan-African News Wire.
Responding to a question raised by Press TV’s U.S. Desk, Azikiwe alluded to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saying both conflicts were triggered by “false” claims made by the U.S. intelligence community.
Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst, only revealed the U.S. military’s crimes committed in the two deadly wars, he said.
Azikiwe believes that Bradley Manning “did the right thing by releasing this information,” praising the former soldier for scarifying “his own personal freedom” for justice.
Manning was set to go on trial on Monday facing a long prison sentence.
The former soldier was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq for allegedly leaking hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents to the whistle-blower website Wikileaks.
Manning has denied the prosecutor’s most serious charge, that he knowingly aided the enemy. But if convicted of the remaining charges, the 25-year-old soldier could spend the rest of his life in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth.
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