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cause of national security and privacy concerns.
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• FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- More than three years after his arrest in Iraq, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is set to learn the price he'll pay for leaking an unprecedented volume of classified information to a once-obscure, anti-secrecy website.
• Manning's sentencing Wednesday in a military courtroom at Fort Meade, near Baltimore, caps a 12-week trial and a much longer legal battle over the former intelligence analyst's intentions when he reached out to WikiLeaks.
• Prosecutors portray Manning, now 25, as "the determined insider," an anarchist hacker and traitor who started working within weeks of his 2009 deployment to provide WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange with exactly what they wanted. The government has urged the military judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, to sentence him to 60 years in prison for crimes that include six Espionage Act violations, five theft counts and computer fraud.
• Manning and his defense team maintain he was an idealistic soldier with a pure motive -- to expose brutal truths about America's military and diplomatic corps. They say the gay soldier's gender-identity crisis in the "don't ask, don't tell" military reached a crescendo that caused him to act out, mistakenly believing that by pouring secret government documents and video onto the Internet, he could change the way the world viewed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and, perhaps, all wars.
• "I believed I was going to help people, not hurt people," Manning said in a courtroom apology last week.
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• JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) -- The U.S. soldier who killed 16 Afghan civilians in an attack on two villages may have to face more of the victims' relatives Wednesday while his lawyers prepare to present evidence to show he deserves a chance at parole.
• An Afghan farmer shot during the massacre in Kandahar Province last year took the witness stand Tuesday at Staff Sgt. Robert Bales' sentencing hearing, cursing

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