Manning list 'could prompt attacks'

A huge database of troop names and email addresses a US army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyber attacks on service members, a government witness said as the trial of Bradley Manning entered its third week.

Manning, a 25-year-old from Oklahoma, has acknowledged he sent more than 700,000 battlefield reports, diplomatic cables and other materials to WikiLeaks, but he pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing a veritable address book of troops deployed to Iraq.