2005.05.17 - PEGC Update
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1) AL ODAH v. UNITED STATES

PEGC -- 

May 16, 2005
Al Odah v. United States, D.C. Cir. 2005
NOTES ON THE GOVERNMENT’S OPENING BRIEF
By Charles B. Gittings Jr.

http://f2.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/cbgittings/lst?.dir=/CBG+Amicus

And see the file "CBG Al-Odah Notes."



2) GUANTANAMO BAY

I have a hunch we might be looking at some psy-ops here...

Two comments:

* It isn't half as irresponsible to report on Gitmo as it is to operate Gitmo,
and the reports of guards desecrating the Koran are old news.

* Tom Wilner and Shearman Sterling have done a tremendous job on the detainee
cases, period.


May 17, 2005
NEWSWEEK SAYS IT IS RETRACTING KORAN REPORT
By Katharine Q. Seelye and Neil A. Lewis

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/politics/17koran.html?pagewanted=print


Knight Ridder Washington Bureau --

May 12, 2005
US INTERROGATORS ACCUSED OF TRYING TO DIVIDE DETAINEES, ATTORNEYS
By Frank Davies

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11632035.htm



3) PADILLA v. HANFT

USCA 4th CIRCUIT --

May 6, 2005
Padilla v. Hanft, No. 05-6396
OPENING BRIEF FOR THE APPELLANT [Gov't]

http://legalaffairs.org/howappealing/PadillaCA4USA.pdf


US Supreme Court --

May 2005
Padilla v. Hanft, No. 04-1342
BRIEF FOR THE RESPONDENT [Gov't] IN OPPOSITION

http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2004/0responses/2004-1342.resp.pdf



4) OP-ED

The Guardian (UK) --

May 14, 2005
THE TRUE PURPOSE OF TORTURE
Guantanamo is there to terrorise
By Naomi Klein

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1483801,00.html

This article also appears in The Nation --

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050530&s=klein


Regards,

Charly


Charles Gittings
Lake Chelan

cbgittings@yahoo.com

+1-509-682-2844

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