US wanted to test Assange’s son’s nappies

The Taliban’s lies helped the US government prosecute Julian Assange and Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, the Old Bailey heard. The WikiLeaks founder, 49, is wanted in the US for allegedly conspiring with Manning to expose military secrets between January and May 2010. Edward Fitzgerald QC, for Assange, read out the statement from the Independent’s Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn at the extradition hearing today (weds). ‘He’s reported about various wars since 1977 and they have included the wars in…