The Guardian's Ed Pilkington is live-tweeting from Fort Meade where ex-hacker Adrian Lamo is expected to give evidence

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After 1,100 days in military captivity, American soldier Bradley Manning finally headed to trial Monday for leaking a trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks. The US soldier faces 21 counts flowing from the leaking of hundreds of thousands of classified digital files to WikiLeaks.

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Our reporter Ed Pilkington is at Fort Meade and will be tweeting throughout the trial. The court has placed increasing restrictions on journalists using multimedia, but Ed will be updating as often as possible.

Follow along below -- if you're viewing in mobile, access Ed's tweets here.

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