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Tieng Anh Vui
A military judge has refused to dismiss the most serious charge facing a US soldier accused of leaking thousands of secret documents.
Lawyers for Pte Bradley Manning, 25, had argued the US has not proved that he "aided the enemy".
The charge carries a life prison term. He has previously pleaded guilty to 10 of the more than 20 charges he faces.
Prosecutors have argued he "systematically harvested" documents eventually seen by Osama Bin Laden.
"He was knowingly providing intelligence to the enemy," said Judge Colonel Denise Lind in Thursday's hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland.
The decision does not rule out the possibility of Pte Manning being ultimately acquitted of the charge.
The case is considered the largest-ever leak of secret US government documents.
Pte Manning told a pre-trial hearing in February that he had divulged the documents to spark a public debate about the role of US military and foreign policy.
Among the items sent to Wikileaks was graphic footage of an Apache helicopter attack in 2007 that killed a dozen people in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, including a Reuters photographer.
Other documents leaked included thousands of battlefield reports from Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as secure messages between US embassies and the state department in Washington.
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