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ABC News US soldier braces for judge's verdict in WikiLeaks case TVNZ US soldier Bradley Manning could soon learn whether he will face life in prison without parole when a judge renders her verdict on charges that he aided the enemy when he released 700,000 classified documents to the website WikiLeaks .

The New York Review of Books (blog) Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Nam Hong in Phnom Penh, August 6, 2010 The New York Review of Books (blog) Third, regarding a 2002 US Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks last summer, His Excellency Hor Nam Hong has already sent a letter of protest to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on 18 July, 2011.

OpEdNews TIFF: Cultural Starwars OpEdNews … US diplomats from Iran following the November 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, when 52 Americans were held hostage, and Iranian student protesters dumped US diplomatic correspondence on the street in a spectacular premodern WikiLeak . and more

Internet gadfly had been previously holed up in Ecuadoran embassy in London Catholic Online Daring to share confidential information in the Internet age, WikiLeak's mastermind Julian Assange has finally been granted asylum in Ecuador. Assange had previously been hiding in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since June.

This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have become a force in global affairs.