IN RE: GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION

Filing 234

NOTICE of Filing by GEORGE W. BUSH (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Respondents Resp. to Uighur Pets.' Mot. To Use CSRTs Provided In DTA Action In This Case)(Wiltsie, Ronald)

IN RE: GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE LITIGATION

Doc. 234

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ____________________________________ ) IN RE: ) ) GUANTANAMO BAY ) DETAINEE LITIGATION ) ____________________________________) Misc. No. 08-442 (TFH) Civ. Action No. 08-1310 (RMU)

NOTICE OF FILING Respondents request that the Court please take notice of the timely filing of their response to petitioners Abdul Ghaffar's (ISN 281) and Adel Noori's (ISN 584) Motion To Use CSRTs Provided In DTA Action In This Case. The response is attached as Exhibit 1. The motion was filed jointly on behalf of these two petitioners and seven other Uighur petitioners, the filing being made both in Judge Hogan's consolidated miscellaneous action, In re Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation, Misc. No. 08-442 (TFH), and in the six other habeas actions to which the various Uighur petitioners were parties. As to petitioners Ghaffar and Noori, their initial habeas action was Mohammon v. Bush, Civ. Action No. 05-2386. Accordingly, counsel for petitioners filed this motion in Mohammon. Subsequent to that filing, however, Judge Hogan ordered the Clerk to transfer petitioners Ghaffar and Noori from Mohammon to a newly established habeas action on the docket of Judge Urbina and to return Mohammon (less these two petitioners) to the docket of Judge Walton. Order July 29, 2008. Three days later, respondents filed their response to the motion in the miscellaneous action and in each of the six habeas actions noted on petitioners' motion, filing the response as to petitioners

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Ghaffar and Noori in Mohammon instead of in the newly established action, Ghaffar v. Bush, Civ. Action No. 08-1310. The response was timely filed in both the miscellaneous action and in the civil action noted on petitioners' motion, but to avoid any confusion respondents request that this Court take notice of their response as if it had been initially filed in Ghaffar v. Bush.

Dated: August 4, 2008

Respectfully submitted, GREGORY KATSAS Assistant Attorney General JOHN C. O'QUINN Deputy Assistant Attorney General /s/ Ronald J. Wiltsie JOSEPH H. HUNT (D.C. Bar No. 431134) VINCENT M. GARVEY (D.C. Bar No. 127191) JUDRY L. SUBAR (D.C. Bar No. 347518) TERRY M. HENRY ANDREW I. WARDEN RONALD J. WILTSIE (D.C. Bar No. 431562) Attorneys United States Department of Justice Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch P.O. Box 883 Washington, DC 20044 Tel: [phone] Attorneys for Respondents

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