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Ipswich bomb victim wants to face accused man

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A bomb-squad officer carries an esky from a house where a man received horrific injuries on Thursday. Photo: Sarah Harvey/The Queensland Times An Ipswich teenager who lost most of his fingers when a home-made bomb exploded in his hands wants to ask the man accused of making it one question: ‘‘Why?’’   The boy lost all but his little finger on his left hand and two fingers on his right hand after the golf-ball bomb he was grasping exploded in May.   Three other boys had found the device in the street and handed it to him.   The Police Bomb Squad detonated several more explosives yesterday at a house in West Ipswich. Photo: David Nielsen/Queensland Times Glen James Dell, 43, has been charged over the incident and faces a raft of other explosives and drug offences following an accidental explosion at his West Ipswich home last Thursday. Some of charges also involve a booby-trapped bomb workers found in a construction site across the road from the house.   Mr Dell’s

Bradley Manning cleared of aiding enemy but still facing up to 136 years in jail

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  Bradley Manning verdict prompts mixed reaction Chief foreign correspondent Paul McGeough analyses the significance of the Bradley Manning verdict and the potential impacts on government transparency and media freedom.   A US military court martial on Tuesday found Bradley Manning not guilty on a lock-up-for-life charge of aiding the enemy by leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.   It was a significant legal win, but a pyrrhic victory in terms of Manning's fate.   Sitting in a high security court at a sprawling US military base, Judge Colonel Denise Lind, convicted the 25-year-old soldier on five charges of espionage, five of theft, one of computer fraud and a series of other military wrong-doings – verdicts on which he collectively faces up to 136 years in jail. Guilty: Bradley Manning is escorted out of court after the verdict. Photo: Reuters Reducing her findings to a series of bald one-liners in legalese, the judge said her d