2005.05.17 - PEGC Update ======================== 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 PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) PEGC.no-ip.info PEGC Update PEGC.no-ip.info/PEGC_Update.html * * *