2005.09.21 - PEGC Update ========================== 1) THE WAR ON THE RULE OF LAW September 18, 2005 GUANTANAMO PRISONERS GO ON HUNGER STRIKE By Neil A. Lewis http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/politics/18gitmo.html Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / Wall Street Journal -- September 12, 2005 [PROF. JOHN C. YOO] PROPOSES ASSASSINATING MORE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS By Paul M. Barrett http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05255/570140.stm Findlaw -- Aug. 26, 2005 WAS PAT ROBERTSON'S CALL FOR ASSASSINATION OF A FOREIGN LEADER A CRIME? Had He Been a Democrat, He'd Probably Be Hiring A Criminal Attorney By JOHN W. DEAN http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050826.html The Guardian (UK) -- September 12, 2005 DESTINATION CAIRO: HUMAN RIGHTS FEARS OVER CIA FLIGHTS By Ian Cobain, Stephen Grey and Richard Norton-Taylor http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369,1567896,00.html World Socialist Web Site -- 21 September 2005 INTERVIEW WITH FORMER GUANTANAMO BAY PRISONER MAMDOUH HABIB By Richard Phillips http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/habi-s21.shtml 2) AL ODAH v. UNITED STATES USCA D.C. Cir. -- September 8, 2005 Bourmediene v. Bush, No. 05-5062, et al. Al Odah v. United States, No. 05-5064, et al. ORAL ARGUMENT (before Sentelle, Randolph and Rogers) http://pegc.no-ip.info/archive/DC_Gitmo_Cases_JHG/DC_Cir_Al-Odah_hearing_20050908.pdf * News Reports: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801851.html http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmo9sep09,1,299342.story?coll=la-headlines-nation http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-09-08T211835Z_01_SPI876540_RTRIDST_0_USREPORT-SECURITY-GUANTANAMO-DC.XML&archived=False 3) MILITARY COMMISSIONS SCOTUSblog -- September 16, 2005 MILITARY COMMISSIONS IN DOUBT? by Lyle Denniston 1: http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2005/09/military_commis.html 2: http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2005/09/military_commis_1.html September 18, 2005 INTERLOCUTORY CASES AT THE S. Ct. by Tom Goldstein http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2005/09/interlocutory_c.html Slate -- Sept. 21, 2005 MILITARY INJUSTICE: STRIKE TWO FOR THE GUANTANAMO TRIALS By David Glazier http://slate.msn.com/id/2126681/ 4) THE RED CRYSTAL Swiss Federal Dep't of Foreign Affairs -- September 13, 2005 RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT: DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE ON AN ADDITIONAL EMBLEM http://www.eda.admin.ch/content/eda/e/home/recent/press/09.html#0004 ICRC -- September 14, 2005 (Press Release) AN ADDITIONAL EMBLEM ALONGSIDE THE RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/6G8HPR!OpenDocument * For the draft Third Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and graphics of the new Red Crystal emblem, see: December 6, 2003 REPORT ON THE FOLLOW-UP OF THE RESOLUTION 3 OF THE 27TH INT'L CONFERENCE ON THE EMBLEM http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/5XRFW4/$File/Emblem_FINAL_ANG.pdf 5) OP-ED The Village Voice -- September 2, 2005 THE REAL JOHN ROBERTS by Nat Hentoff http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0536,hentoff,67495,6.html OpEdNews.com -- Septermber 14, 2005 JOHN ROBERTS' ROLE IN THE GUANTANAMO HUNGER-STRIKE by Mike Whitney http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mike_whi_050914_john_roberts__role_i.htm Washington Post -- September 12, 2005 INHUMAN: YES OR NO? By Jackson Diehl http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/11/AR2005091101085.html Findlaw -- September 14, 2005 THE UNJUST DETENTION OF JOSE PADILLA By Joanne Mariner http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20050914.html The Minnesota Daily -- September 19, 2005 STARVING FOR JUSTICE DOWN IN GUANTANAMO Editorial http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/09/16/65165 6) SIMON WIESENTHAL (1908-2005) US Senate -- September 20, 2005 STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF SIMON WIESENTHAL Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) http://feinstein.senate.gov/05releases/r-wiesenthal.htm The Times (UK) -- September 21, 2005 THE FIGHT AGAINST FORGETTING Editorial http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1790075,00.html Regards, Charly Charles Gittings Lake Chelan cbgittingsyahoocom PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) * PEGC URL: http//pegcno-ipinfo * CBG Yahoo! Briefcase: http//briefcaseyahoocom/cbgittings * * *