2006.12.04 - PEGC Update ========================== 1) GUANTANAMO BAY Seattle Times / AP -- December 3, 2006 GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES LOOK TO EACH OTHER FOR LEGAL HELP By John Heilprin http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003459321_gitmo.html * Order recognizing detainee Bisher Al Rawi as "next friend" to detainee Hamid Al-Razak under Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990)... USDC D.D.C. -- Al Razak v. Bush, No. 05-1601 (GK) December 1, 2006 MEMORANDUM ORDER http://www.pegc.us/archive/Al-Razak/order_GK_20061201.pdf Washington Post -- December 4, 2006 A JUDGE'S SHARP OPINION By Carol D. Leonnig http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/03/AR2006120301123.html Miami Herald -- December 4, 2006 FAST FUNDING SOUGHT FOR GUANTANAMO TERROR-TRIAL SITE By Carol Rosenberg http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/front/16158023.htm Syracuse Post-Standard -- December 3, 2006 WALSH BALKS AT BUSH REQUEST FOR GUANTANAMO COURTHOUSES By Mark Weiner http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/116513980321760.xml FAS / Senate Judiciary Committee -- September 25, 2006 Senate Hearing 109-658 EXAMINING PROPOSALS TO LIMIT GUANTANAMO DETAINEES' ACCESS TO HABEAS http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2006_hr/habeas.html 2) US v. PADILLA New York Times -- December 4, 2006 VIDEO IS A WINDOW INTO A TERROR SUSPECT’S ISOLATION By Deborah Sontag http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/us/04detain.html USDC S.D. Fla. -- United States v. Padilla, No. 0:04-cr-60001-MGC-8 December 4, 2006 REPLY TO THE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO THE MOTION TO DISMISS FOR PRE-INDICTMENT DELAY http://www.pegc.us/archive/US_v_Padilla/def_reply1_20061201.pdf December 4, 2006 REPLY TO THE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO THE MOTION TO DISMISS FOR SPEEDY TRIAL VIOLATIONS OF SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS http://www.pegc.us/archive/US_v_Padilla/def_reply2_20061201.pdf December 4, 2006 MR. PADILLA’S REPLY TO THE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO THE MOTION TO DISMISS FOR OUTRAGEOUS GOVERNMENT CONDUCT http://www.pegc.us/archive/US_v_Padilla/def_reply3_20061201.pdf * Exhibits (requires Adobe Reader 6.0): http://www.pegc.us/archive/US_v_Padilla/def_reply3_20061201_ex.pdf * Exhibit photographs: http://www.pegc.us/archive/US_v_Padilla/def_reply3_20061201_photos.pdf 3) RENDITIONS Washington Post -- November 29, 2006 THE WRONGED MAN Unjustly Imprisoned and Mistreated, Khaled al-Masri Wants Answers the US Government Doesn't Want to Give By Dana Priest http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801810.html * Weekly Washington Post online national security and intelligence discussion with reporter Dana Priest (2006.11.30): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/11/22/DI2006112201315.html The Guardian (UK) -- November 29, 2006 MEPs CONDEMN BRITAIN'S ROLE IN 'TORTURE FLIGHTS' * EU states knew about rendition, says report * Suspected detention centre in Poland named By Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicholas Watt in Brussels http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1959360,00.html November 28, 2006 EU COUNTRIES KNEW OF CIA PRISONS, RENDITION FLIGHTS: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT REPORT By Jeannie Shawl http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/11/eu-countries-knew-of-cia-prisons.php European Parliament TDIP -- [ "TDIP" = Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners ] November 16, 2006 * Working document number 7 on extraordinary renditions: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/comparl/tempcom/tdip/working_docs/pe380593_en.pdf * Working document number 8 on the companies linked to CIA, aircraft used by the CIA, and the European countries in which CIA aircraft have made stopovers: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/comparl/tempcom/tdip/working_docs/pe380984_en.pdf 4) TORTURE History News Network -- December 4, 2006 THE US HAS A HISTORY OF USING TORTURE By Alfred W. McCoy http://www.hnn.us/articles/32497.html 5) SADDAM VERDICT Grotian Moment (Case School of Law) -- December 3, 2006 ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE [SADDAM HUSSEIN] JUDGMENT "The judgment and sentence in the Dujail Case was issued by the Iraqi High Tribunal Trial Chamber on November 5, 2006. The written opinion of the Tribunal, which is over 200 pages in length, was completed and posted on the Iraqi High Tribunal's website in Arabic on November 22, 2006, and was provided to Defense Counsel in CD and hard copy on November 23. Appeals were filed by Defense Counsel and the Prosecutor on December 3, 2006. The Tribunal provided us the English Translation for posting on the Grotian Moment Website on December 3, 2006. The Dujail Opinion is in six parts." http://law.case.edu/saddamtrial/dujail/opinion.asp 6) OP-ED truthout / New York Times -- December 3, 2006 HAS HE STARTED TALKING TO THE WALLS? By Frank Rich http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120306A.shtml Unclaimed Territory -- December 1, 2006 THE TOM FRIEDMAN DISEASE CONSUMES ESTABLISHMENT WASHINGTON By Glenn Greenwald http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/12/tom-friedman-disease-consumes.html Tom-Dispatch -- November 30, 2006 THE GRAND JURY TESTIMONY United States v. George W. Bush, et al. By Elizabeth de la Vega http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=143920 * * * PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) http://www.pegc.us Charles B. Gittings Jr. Fort Bragg, California cbgittingsyahoo.com +1-707-964-2151