(Washington, DC)  --  The man suspected of leaking more than 91-thousand secret documents relating to the war in Afghanistan is back on American soil.
   A U.S. Army spokesman issued a statement saying Army Private First Class Bradley Manning was transferred Thursday from a U.S. military base in Kuwait to the brig at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia.
   Charges were filed against the 22-year-old military intelligence analyst earlier this month in connection with a leak of classified data that included a video showing the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians and two journalists from a helicopter gun ship.
   That video made headlines in April after it wound up on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.org.
   Military officials also consider Manning a "person of interest" in the leak of the Afghanistan reports, which appeared on WikiLeaks this past Sunday.
   The Army says Manning will remain in what could be a "lengthy continued pretrial confinement" at Quantico pending an investigation into the charges against him and the new allegations.

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