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Wikileaks promises massive new document release
By the CNN Wire Staff
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* WikiLeaks says it is planning to release more classified military
documents
* WikiLeaks says via Twitter the new release will be seven times larger
than its Iraq document release
* The Pentagon has been preparing for new WikiLeaks disclosures
* Pfc. Bradley Manning, charged with leaking to the group, is being held at
Quantico, Virginia.
(CNN) -- The whistleblower organization WikiLeaks indicated Monday that it is
preparing to release a new batch of previously classified U.S. military
documents.
"Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs," the group stated via
Twitter. "Intense pressure over it for months. Keep us strong."
In October, WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 U.S. military reports about
operations in Iraq. In July, it released more than 70,000 reports from the war
in Afghanistan.
Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said last month that the Defense Department
has been bracing for the release of more secrets by WikiLeaks. Lapan said
WikiLeaks has more Pentagon material beyond what the group's founder, Julian
Assange, has admitted publicly to possessing.
The military has charged Pfc. Bradley Manning with leaking video to WikiLeaks,
as well as downloading documents from military computers while he served as an
intelligence analyst in Iraq. Among the documents he is alleged to have taken
are 150,000 diplomatic cables. WikiLeaks has denied being in possession of
those cables.
Manning is currently being held at a military jail in Quantico, Virginia.
The Stockholm Criminal Court recently issued an international arrest warrant
for Assange, saying he is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and illegal use
of force.
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