Pfc Manning wants charges for giving secret files to the Wikileaks website to be dropped because of his ordeal.
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Southwark Crown Court had previously heard that PayPal was attacked after it decided not to process payments on behalf of the Wau Holland Foundation, an organisation involved in raising funds for the Wikileaks website.
Pfc Manning is accused of sending thousands of battlefield reports from both Afghanistan and Iraq, 250, 000 diplomatic cables, and other classified material to the Wikileaks website in 2009 and 2010 while working as an Army intelligence analyst in Baghdad.
BBC: Bradley Manning pleads guilty to some Wikileaks charges
The website WikiLeaks.org and its founder Julian Assange have been receiving a great deal of attention lately.
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More than a year ago, Twitter publicly disclosed that the U.S. government had obtained a court order requiring it to hand over information about four accounts of Twitter users in connection with an investigation of WikiLeaks, the website that published secret and classified information.
Within two weeks of his arrival in Iraq in late 2009, Manning began downloading information, seeking out WikiLeaks and communicating with the website's founder, Julian Assange, despite warnings from the military, the prosecutor said.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose website sensationally published thousands of classified US government cables, has become a wanted man across the globe.
Mastercard has, however, commented on claims that pro-Wikileaks internet hackers had brought down its website.
Mr. Assange's legal battle has compounded WikiLeaks' troubles at a time when the document-leaking website is facing a number of difficulties, including constrained finances.
In April 2010, Mr. Appelbaum's involvement in WikiLeaks was inadvertently disclosed publicly in a blog post on the website of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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The Pentagon has demanded that Wikileaks remove a trove of secret documents on the Afghanistan war from its website and cancel plans to publish anything more it holds.
BBC: Pentagon demands Wikileaks return Afghanistan documents
Mr. Appelbaum has also volunteered for WikiLeaks, which recommends people use Tor's tools to protect their identities when submitting documents to its website.
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