2004.07.14 - PEGC Update
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1) TORTURE SCANDAL

A grim account of the classified portions of the Taguba Report...

US News & World Report --

July 19, 2004 Issue

HELL ON EARTH
Life in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, newly available
documents show, would have made Satan quake

By Edward T. Pound and Kit R. Roane

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040719/usnews/19prison.htm


Centre Daily Times (State College, PA) / AP:

July 14, 2004
ANGER SEETHES IN HYNDMAN OVER ABU GHRAIB SOLDIER
By Charles Sheehan

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/9153677.htm



2) SALIM HAMDAN / SWIFT v. RUMSFELD

Reuters --

July 14, 2004
US CHARGES YEMENI DESCRIBED AS BIN LADEN BODYGUARD
By Will Dunham

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5672614


The Guardian (UK) / AP --

July 14, 2004
FOURTH GUANTANAMO DETAINEE IS CHARGED

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4311366,00.html


DoD --

July 14, 2004
ADDITIONAL MILITARY COMMISSION CHARGES REFERRED
DoD Press Release No. 678-04

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/nr20040714-1030.html

The Department of Defense announced today that charges were referred to a
military commission on one enemy combatant detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Appointing Authority John D. Altenburg, Jr., approved and referred charges on
SALIM AHMED HAMDAN of Yemen...

* Charge sheet: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2004/d20040714hcc.pdf

* Referral: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2004/d20040714HAC.pdf


And Friday there is a status conference in Swift v. Rumsfeld:

USDC W.D. Wash. (Seattle), 2:04cv00777

Minute Order, 7/13/2004:

"A status Conference has been scheduled in this matter for Friday, July 16,
2004, at 11:00 AM in courtroom 936, before the Honorable Robert S. Lasnik,
United States District Judge."

pegc.no-ip.info/archive/Swift_v_Rumsfeld/minute_order_20040713.pdf

* Docket: pegc.no-ip.info/archive/Swift_v_Rumsfeld/docket.txt



3) OP-ED

San Francisco Chronicle --

July 13, 2004
THIS COLUMN HAS NEVER BEEN REFUTED
By Jon Carroll

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/13/DDGG77G1MO1.DTL


AsiaTimes (Hong Kong) --

July 14, 2004
ISRAEL UP AGAINST THE WALL
By Ian Williams

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FG14Ak01.html



Regards,

Charly

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Charles Gittings
Oakland, California

cbgittings@sbcglobal. net

+1-510-923-1688

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