The following are the official fighter weights from today’s weigh-ins:

Main Event:
165 lb. limit:
Sam “The Squeeze” Morgan – 164.8 lbs.
Duane “Bang” Ludwig – 165 lbs.

185 lb. limit:
Falaniko “Niko” Vitale – 185.6 lbs.
Frank “Twinkle Toes” Trigg – 183.8 lbs.

170 lb. limit:
Pete “The Secret Weapon” Spratt – 170.8 lbs.
Donnie Liles – 170.8 lbs.

155 lb. limit:
Billy Evangelista – 155 lbs.
Luke “Lil’ Hulk” Caudillo – 155 lbs.

112 lb. limit:
Tyra Parker – 116 lbs.
Michelle Waterson – 111.4 lbs.

205 lb. limit:
Carlos Zevallos – 205.4 lbs.
Andre “The Silencer” Walker – 202.4 lbs.

145 lb. limit:
Ricky Johnson – 143.5 lbs.
Tyler Toner – 146 lbs.

Tickets for Strikeforce “Payback,” priced from $30, are on sale at Ticketmaster (303-830-TIXS) and Ticketmaster.com
Broomfield Event Center doors will open for Strikeforce “Payback” at 5:30 PM MST tomorrow and the preliminary card will begin at 6:30 PM MST. The main card will commence at 8 PM MST.
About Strikeforce:
Strikeforce is a world-class mixed martial arts cage fight promotion which, on Friday, March 10, 2006, made history with its “Shamrock vs. Gracie” event, the first sanctioned mixed martial arts fight card in California state history. The star-studded extravaganza, which pitted legendary champion Frank Shamrock against Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Cesar Gracie at San Jose’s HP Pavilion, played host to a sold-out, record crowd of 18,265. Since 1995, Strikeforce has been the exclusive provider of martial arts programming for ESPN and, after 12 years of success as a leading, world championship kickboxing promotion, the company unveiled its mixed martial arts series with “Shamrock vs. Gracie.” Since then, it has co-produced the first SHOWTIME PPV mixed martial arts event in history with its world championship “Shamrock vs. Baroni” card on June 22, 2007 followed by the first-ever mixed martial arts event at the world-famous Playboy Mansion on September 29, 2007.

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Indianpolis Colts at Houston Texans, Sunday at 1:00 pm Eastern
Im going to put this out right now before I start but gambling in sports is around 90% luck.  You just can never tell what is going to happen in the game.  This guy might break a big run, the favorite horse breaks there leg, or the star player is in jail because he decided to hit his wife last night.  Knowing that, why should I even gamble.  Well if you know what you are doing, than you can probably maximize that 10% into making you money.
I love to bet on horses and all other sports mainly football.  It takes time to study the horses because it is hard to keep up with them.  So usually I get a newspaper and review their stats or basically go on betting trends and make my trifecta box picks.  But today Im going to talk to you about football.  Im not an expert in football but Ill let you know this.  Each and every play on the football field, I like to say that 50% of the time, offense or defense is going to win.  Knowing this, you have to know that teams scheme for this.  They look at their players, compare it to their opponent, and game plan to allow for success.  This can be either controlling the clock, or winning on big plays, whatever.  You have to know that teams cant come out and just bomb on other teams.
New England last year made this happen because they knew Tom Brady studies the hell out of the other teams, and no secondary can physically match up to Randy Moss.  But, if you noticed, they couldnt run the ball.  Why?  Because their linemens are small and fast, made for pass blocking and zone blocking.  When they tried to run, it would be against a weaker run defense team.  So knowing the personnel of each team is way better than understanding the coachs philosophy because coaches will always change philosophy depending on the team they play.  So lets begin with my pick of the week and hopefully you make money on this.
Indianapolis Colts visit the Houston Texans this week.  Looking at this from the normal viewer, the Colts always beat the Texans because they have Manning.  Lose this mentality right away! In the NFL, no one player can beat a whole team.  So lets analyze this.  Indianapolis is favored by 3 points and the over/under points is 47. Indianapolis is coming off a bye week same as Houston.  But heres the difference, Manning gets two weeks to look at your team.  Indianapolis defense is really week this year mainly because Bob Sanders is out meaning no run support in their Tampa 2 defense.  When you stack 7 guys in the box in Tampa 2, you better have some big players to make the stop and the Colts dont have that.  Houston has 2 playmakers by the name of Slaton and Andre Johnson.  Houstons defense has Robinson who cannot cover in zone which they will have to play if Colts are using multiple wrs.  You must possess 3 shut down corners to cover all WRs in a spread set.  This will force Houston to either bring in the Nickel or stay base and use zone coverages.
So the gameplan for Houston is to keep the ball out of Mannings hands meaning control the clock.  Indianapolis has a weak defense which means keep the ball on offense.  Knowing this, this game will not be a shootout and will be based on field position and ball control.  Matchup wise, Mario Williams will have a tough time again Ugoh and Addai will get 30 carries against this weak defense.  Indianapolis will cover the 3 points and the total score will be under 47. Make this parlay bet and you will have a good chance of winning, unless some crazy shit happens which I wont be surprised if it did.

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UA on July 2 reported an apparent violation of NCAA rules regarding soliciting donations, said Athletic Director Jim Livengood in a statement Monday afternoon.

A letter was sent this spring to the Rebounders Club board of directors from Olson's office encouraging them to donate to an amateur basketball exhibition tournament at UA, according to Livengood's report.

The letter was printed over Olson's electronic signature and went out marked "personal and confidential," according to the report Livengood sent to Ron Barker, the associate commissioner of the Pac-10 conference.
...
The letter, which referred to the Arizona Cactus Classic, read in part: "This tournament brings some of the to players in the country to Tucson and is very critical for our recruiting. ... To ensure the future of this tournament, Jim (Storey) needs support from private donations."

Storey runs the Cactus Classic.

Olson "adamantly denied" knowledge of the letter being sent and later sent a retraction, Livengood reported.

In that letter to the Rebounders, which is not dated, Olson wrote, "A letter was sent from the basketball office under my electronic signature which I had never seen or approved in any way because it was a clear cut violation of NCAA rules.

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1. Jambalaya Bowl
New Orleans, LA
#142 Southern Methodist (1-3) vs. #101 Tulane (1-2)

SMU: The Mustangs got clobbered by the TCU Horned Frogs to the tune of 48-7. SMUs spread offense put up only 218 yards of passing, with QB Bo Levi Mitchell throwing 2 interceptions, and getting sacked 3 times for minus 3 yards. Mustang RBs combined for 5 yards on 5 carries. Meanwhile, the Horned Frogs carved up the SMU defense for nearly 500 yards, SMU has given up an average 45.8 points per game, 3rd worst in the country, leads the nation in interceptions thrown (tied with Washington State at 10 over 4 games), and is dead last in rushing yards per game.

TULANE: The Green Wave downed the Louisiana Monroe Warhawks by a score of 24-10. Tulane RB Andre Anderson carried the ball 38 times for 157 yards and 1 TD, and had a pair of receptions for 20 yards. The Green Wave defense throttled the Warhawk offense, allowing only 28 total net yards in the first half, and forcing punts on every possession. The Tulane defense ranks 7th in the nation in yards allowed per game.

Line: Wave by 17. Tulane is 11-5 against SMU, and has won 6 of the last 7 contests. Last year, the Green Wave needed overtime to beat the Mustangs 41-34. (CBS)

2. Big 10 Inaction
Ames, IA
#36 Northwestern (4-0) vs. #39 Iowa (3-1)

NORTHWESTERN: For the 1st time since 1962, the Wildcats are undefeated entering week 5, beating the 0-4 Ohio Bobcats last Saturday 16-8. Northwestern had an opening drive of 70 yards and over 200 yards in the first half, but then went into hibernation. QB C J Bacher threw 4 interceptions. It took the Wildcat defense and 2 blocked field goals to win the game. Northwesterns defense is limiting opponents to 11.3 ppg, 13th best in the country.

IOWA: The Hawkeyes lost on the road against the Pitt Panthers by a score of 21-20. Iowa outgained Pitt in total net yards by 361 to 259, but Pitt made the big plays when the game was on the line. Iowa RB Shonn Greene rushed for 147 yards on 23 carries, and 1 TD. The Hawkeye defense is limiting opponents to 7.3 ppg, 5th best in the country.

Line: Hawkeyes by 8. Iowa holds a big edge in the series, 46-20-3, but the rivalry has been close in recent years. Iowa won last years contest by a score of 28-17. (ESPN Classic)

3. No BCS Busters Here
Raleigh, NC
#83 Houston (1-3) vs. #23 East Carolina (3-1)

HOUSTON: Trailing 28-25 on the road against the Colorado State Rams, facing a 3rd and goal with 8 seconds remaining on the clock, Cougar QB Case Keenum threw short into the end zone and was picked off to end the game. The Cougars have now lost 3 in a row. Keenum finished 37 out of 54 passes for 380 yards and 3 TDs, but he was also intercepted 3 times.

ECU: The Pirates lost on the road in overtime 30-24 to the 2-2 North Carolina State Wolfpack, ending the Pirates dreams of a possible BCS berth. The Pirates took a 24-17 lead on a 4th quarter FG, but the Pirate defense couldnt hold back the Wolfpack. NC State tied the score with just over a minute to play. In overtime, Pirate star QB Patrick Pinckney was blindsided on a roll out right, and lost the ball. NC State scored in its 1st possession to win the game.

Line: Pirates by 10. East Carolina is 5-3 versus Houston, and won last year by a score of 37-35. (ESPN U).

4. Nine Dwarves Double Elimination Playoff Game #2
Pullman, WA
#26 Oregon (3-1) vs. #98 Washington State (1-3)

OREGON: The Ducks were defeated at home by the Boise State Broncos by a score of 37-32. Oregon started their third string sophomore QB Jeremiah Masoli and was leading 6-0 in the first quarter, when Masoli was hit and had to leave the game with a concussion. His replacement, frosh QB Chris Harper was ineffective, and the Ducks only other score came after an interception in the second quarter. In the meantime, the Duck secondary proved porous; as Bronco QB Kellen Moore threw for 385 yards and 3 TDs. Boise surged to a 38-13 lead. In the 4th quarter, the Ducks 5th string QB, Darron Thomas, made his debut and led an impressive comeback, throwing for 206 yards and 3 TDs. Head Coach Mike Belotti stated the obvious, I shouldve made the call earlier to get him in the game.

WSU: The Cougars finally won a game, beating the FCS Big Sky Conference Portland State Vikings by a score 48-9. Starting QB Kevin Lopina and backup QB Gary Rogers were both knocked out of the game by concussions, Rogers lost for the season. Third string QB Marshall Lobbestaal filled in nicely, throwing for 2 TDs. The Cougars had over 600 yards of total offense, while limiting the Vikings to 246 total net yards, and 8 net yards rushing.

Line: Ducks by 19 points. Oregon leads the close-fought series 42-36-7, with the average score Ducks 19, Cougs 17. Oregon won last years contest by a record 53-7 in Eugene. (FSN)

Nine Dwarves Double Elimination Playoff Implications: WSU will be officially eliminated in the playoffs with a loss. Oregons playoff chances will be dramatically reduced with a loss. In Seattle, the Stanford Cardinal can officially eliminate the Washington Huskies with a win. Oregon State could throw the entire playoff into chaos if they win at home against USC on Thursday night, making it two upsets in a row at Reser Stadium in Corvallis.

5. Battle of the SEC Also-rans
Auburn, AL
#40 Tennessee (1-2) vs. #15 Auburn (3-1)

TENNESSEE: The Vols self-destructed in front of the home crowd at Neyland Stadium, losing for the 4th straight time to their SEC East rival Florida Gators by a score of 30-6. Three factors did in the Tennesseans. First, the Volunteers spotted the Gators an easy field goal by fumbling on their 1st possession. Second, consecutive Volunteer drives to the red zone ended in disasters, with QB Jonathan Crompton fumbling away the ball on one occasion, and then throwing the ball to a player in a blue and red jersey on another. Third, Gator return specialist Brandon James had a big day, returning one punt 78 yards for a touchdown, and returning a kickoff 50 yards to set up another Gator score. Volunteer fans bolted for the exits midway through the 3rd quarter.

AUBURN: Auburn lost the Tiger Bowl to LSU by a score of 26-21, even though Auburn was leading at the half 14-3 in front of the home crowd, and the Auburn defense had bottled up LSU, allowing only 6 first downs. For the year, the Tiger defense is allowing only 10.3 ppg, 10th best in the country. For 6 of the last 8 years, the winner of this game has gone on to the SEC championship game. Despite the loss, the coaching staff insists that Auburn is still alive for the SEC championship game, and maybe should throw the ball more, but who are they kidding? The loser of the Tiger Bowl has gone to the SEC championship game in exactly 0 of the last 8 years.

Line: Tigers by 5 points. Auburn is 25-21-3 against Tennessee, and has won 3 in a row, including the 2004 SEC championship game the last time the 2 teams played. Between 1956 and 1991, the 2 teams met every year. Since the conference split into 2 divisions in 1992, the teams have met in regular season action only 4 times. (ABC)

6. FBS Bottom 10 Game
El Paso, TX
#87 Central Florida (1-2) vs. #136 UTEP (0-3)

UCF: The Knights were crushed by the Boston College Eagles by a score of 34-7. Central Florida has an anemic offense, averaging a woeful 16 ppg, 10th worst in the country. Head Coach George OLeary blamed the QB and the K for the loss. UCF QBs combined for only 129 yards and 4 interceptions, while the kicker missed on 2 chip shots from 25 yards away. You cant blow field goals, OLeary complained. From snapper to holder to kicker we just didnt get it done.

UTEP: The Miners lost to the visiting New Mexico State Aggies by a single point, 34-33. NMSU broke a six-game losing streak with the victory. The UTEP defense stuffed the Aggie run game, but surrendered 329 passing yards and 5 TD passes through the air. The UTEP offense relied on a steady run game, with RB James Thomas carrying for 142 yards in 29 tries, and scoring 2 rushing TDs. But after NMSU scored the go-ahead touchdown with 10 minutes to play, and the Miners marched methodically downfield to the NMSU 14-yard line, RB Vernon Frazier was stopped for no gain on first down, and then stripped of the ball on second down, to lose possession, and the game. The Miner defense is giving up 39.3 ppg, 7th worst in the country.

Line: Miners by 4 points. This is the second time the 2 Conference USA schools have met. Central Florida won at home last year by a score of 36-20 over UTEP. This game features a bad offense v. a bad defense. (ESPN Game Plan)

7. Pork Bellies are Down Right Now
Austin, TX
64 Arkansas (2-1) vs. #7 Texas (3-0)

ARKANSAS: The Razorbacks were on the short end of a 49-14 whipping in their SEC home season opener against the Alabama Crimson Tide. Arkansas QB Casey Dick threw 2 first half interception, both returned for touchdowns as the Tide rolled to a 35-7 halftime lead. The Razorback defense gave up 328 net yards rushing to Alabama. Arkansas has had to come from behind in both of their victories over the 1-3 Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks and the 2-2 FCS Gateway Conference Western Illinois Leathernecks. Arkansas is giving up over 33 ppg, last in the SEC conference.

TEXAS: The Longhorns steamrolled over Rice by a score of 52-10. QB Colt McCoy threw for 4 TDs, giving him a total of 62 for his career, setting a new Longhorn record. Texas had 600 yards of total offense, while the defense limited the Owls to a pathetic 17 net yards of rushing. If the Longhorns hadnt fumbled twice, the team might have scored on every possession. Texas has yet to face a quality opponent, but are 6th in scoring offense and 12th in fewest points allowed on defense. The Razorbacks wont provide much of a test for the Austinites.

Line: Longhorns by 28 points. Texas leads the series 55-21, but the 2 teams havent played since 2004. (ABC)

7. Halt, Who Goes There?
Corpus Christi, TX
#174 Army (0-3) vs. #65 Texas A M (1-2)

ARMY: The Black Knights lost to the Akron Zips 22-3, to drop to 0-3 for the first time since 2005 and extended its losing streak to 9 games. Turnovers did in Army, as the team fumbled six times, losing the ball 4 of the 6 times, and was intercepted once. Armys 6.7 ppg average is 2nd to last in the country.

A M: The Aggies were routed at home to the Miami Hurricanes by a score of 41-23. The game started great for A M, with a 62-yard TD pass from backup QB Jerrod Johnson to WR Mike Goodson on the first play from scrimmage. The game was close at the end of the 1st quarter with the Hurricanes taking a narrow lead, 14-10. Then, the Hurricanes put on a show and scored 27 unanswered points to put the game away early. The Aggie offense is last in scoring ppg in the Big 12, and the Aggie defense is last in ppg allowed in the conference as well.

Line: Aggies by a 28 point margin. A M is 2-1 in games against Army, beating the Black Knights in San Antonio 2 years ago by a 28-24 margin. (Versus)

9. Its Hot and My ACC Needs Fixing
Durham, NC
#59 Virginia (1-2) vs. #84 Duke (2-1)

UV: The Cavaliers had a bye last week, with an extra week to prepare for their ACC road opener. Virginias lone win came over the 3-1 FCS Colonial Division Richmond Spiders, and the teams two losses were blowout losses to #1 USC and the undefeated UConn Huskies by the scores of 52-7 and 45-10. The Cavaliers defense ranks last in the ACC in ppg allowed, and the offense ranks last in the ACC in ppg scored.

DUKE: The Blue Devils had a bye last week. The week 3 victory over the Navy Midshipmen gave Duke its second win of the season, the most wins in a season for Duke in over 3 years. Dukes only loss this year was a 24-20 nail-biter against the undefeated Northwestern Wildcats. This is Dukes 4th consecutive home game.

Line: Blue Devils by 7. The Cavaliers lead the series 32 games to 27, and Duke hasnt won a game against Virginia since the turn of the millennium. (CBS)

10. FCS Bottom 10 Game
Stony Brook, Long Island, NY
#157 Hofstra (1-2) vs. #196 Stony Brook (1-3)

HOFSTRA: The Pride (think Lions) captured their first victory with a FCS Colonial Conference home opener win over the Rhode Island Rams by a score of 23-20. Hofstra needed a last minute FG to preserve the victory. The Pride offense is averaging a disappointing 14 ppg, 12th worst in the conference. Hofstra operates the longest running public radio station and is the site for the third and last presidential debate between Senators McCain and Obama.

SUNYSB: The Seawolves were torpedoed by the Ivy League Brown Bears by a score of 17-7. Stony Brook managed only 147 total net yards, and scored their only points in the game on a 19-yard interception return. Stony Brook adopted the Seawolf mascot in 1994 with the move to the FCS conference, a mythical creature revered by the Alaskan Tlingit tribe based on the killer whale or orca. The university is a leading research center, and 3 professors were awarded the Nobel Prize last year for their research on climate change. Perhaps, with the melting of the polar ice cap, orcas will migrate through the newly formed Northwest Passage and wind up in Long Island some day.

Prediction: Seawolves finally win one, by a 6 point margin. This is a Long Island grudge match. Hofstra has won all 11 games in the series, including last years narrow 33-28 victory in Hempstead.

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Since our last submission, the United States has enacted or begun to undertake new laws, policies, and practices that reflect the continuing failure of the U.S. to fully accept its obligations under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. We outline here some of those developments, and hope the Committee will consider these matters as well. We also wish to apprise the Committee of relevant new research that Human Rights Watch has completed since our last submission.

I. Detainee Treatment Act (Articles 1, 2, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16)

In December 2005, President George W. Bush signed into law the Detainee Treatment Act (DTA). On the positive side, the DTA includes the McCain amendment, which prohibits the use of torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment by any U.S. official or employee operating anywhere in the world. It also sets the Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation as the standard for all interrogations carried out by the Department of Defense.

Unfortunately, the DTA raises important new concerns. The DTA includes a provision, known as the Graham-Levin amendment, that precludes detainees at Guantanámo Bay from bringing any future challenge to their ongoing detention or conditions of confinement before the courts.

In ongoing litigation, the administration has taken the position that the Graham-Levin amendment precludes detainees at Guantanamo Bay from challenging in federal court the use of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. If the courts of appeal agree with this position and uphold the amendments constitutionality, the gains from the McCain amendment will be significantly vitiated, with victims of abuse held at Guantanámo having no independent legal forum in which to seek to vindicate their rights. Denying these individuals the opportunity to redress such abuse violates the U.S.s obligations under Article 13, 14, 16 of the Convention.

The United States also continues to circumvent its obligations under the Convention and undermine the McCain amendment by defining torture in a manner that is inconsistent with the Conventions definition of torture. Of particular concern, the United States has failed to denounce a type of mock drowning, as a form of torture or cruel and inhuman treatment. In an interview with ABC news on November 29, 2005, CIA Director Porter Goss refused to state that waterboarding was an impermissible interrogation technique.

Human Rights Watch is also concerned that planned revisions to the Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation, which will reportedly include a classified annex, will also undercut the gains of the McCain amendment. Given that military personnel have been authorized to use abusive interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects in the past, and given the administrations continued refusal to denounce waterboarding as torture, Human Rights Watch is worried that the contents of this annex will allow for practices that violate the prohibition against torture and other abuse. Human Rights Watch hopes that the Committee will inquire of the United States as to the need for and scope of interrogation techniques that will be included in the classified annex.

Moreover, the United States has also never stated what steps if any it has taken to ensure compliance with the provisions of the McCain amendment by the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The McCain amendment does not provide a mechanism for individual victims of torture and abuse to bring civil court cases to seek redress for violations of the amendment. As a result, the administrations role in internally monitoring and enforcing the amendment takes on heightened importance. Has the CIA issued and promulgated new interrogation guidelines in response to the passage of the McCain amendment? How are the new rules communicated to agents and contractors in the field? What steps is the United States taking to monitor and enforce these obligations?

Our concerns in this respect are magnified by the Presidents signing statement issued at the time the McCain amendment became law, in which the President suggested that his powers as Commander-in-Chief trumped any restrictions on the use of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment imposed by the amendment.

II. Use of Evidence Obtained Through Torture (Article 15)

The Detainee Treatment Act includes a troubling provision that appears to sanction the use of evidence obtained through torture. Specifically, the DTA requires the Combatant Status Review Tribunals and Annual Review Boards (military bodies convened to evaluate the status of detainees at Guantanámo Bay) to assess whether statements from the detainee were obtained through coercion and then assess the probative value of the statement. The implication of this rule is that statements obtained through torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment could be used as evidence if they have sufficient probative value. Moreover, there is no prohibition on the use of statements of other witnesses against the detainees that are obtained through torture or other coercion. According to Pentagon documents, Mohammed Al-Qahtani accused 30 fellow prisoners of being Osama bin Laden's bodyguards -- after Qahtani was reportedly tormented by weeks of sleep deprivation, isolation and sexual humiliation.

Somewhat more positively, the Pentagon released a Military Commission Instruction in April that bars the use of evidence obtained through torture in any of the military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay. However, the Instruction falls far short of what is required under the Convention. It does not bar the use of evidence acquired by abusive interrogations that fall short of torture but nonetheless violate the prohibitions against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. It is also unclear how evidence acquired through torture would be excluded in practice. The Instruction does not oblige the prosecution to ascertain and disclose that evidence was obtained through torture. Nor does it establish who has the burden of proof in a case where the defendant raises a challenge to evidence on the grounds that it was obtained through torture. If the burden is placed on the defendant, without a concomitant obligation on the prosecution to disclose, this will be a meaningless prohibition. It will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a defendant to corroborate a claim of torture or abuse, without the assistance of an independent investigation by the prosecution who, unlike the defense, has access to the interrogators and interrogation logs.

Another area of concern is the recent case that appears to turn a blind eye to the use of evidence based on torture. In November, Ahmed Omar Ali was convicted on terrorism conspiracy charges and subsequently sentenced to thirty years in prison. At trial, the government relied extensively on a confession made by Ali while he was detained in Saudi Arabia. Ali maintains that he was tortured, beaten, whipped, and ultimately coerced into confessing. The court, however, denied the defense teams request to present evidence of scars on his back suggesting that he had been tortured. It also precluded the defense from presenting general evidence regarding Saudi Arabias poor human rights record on torture, instead taking at face value Saudi officials statements denying the existence of torture in Saudi Arabia. In so doing, they ignored U.S. Department of State reports of widespread abuse of prisoners by the Saudi Arabian government.

III. (Articles 2, 5, 1, 13, 14, 16)

In April, John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, acknowledged to media sources that the Central Intelligence Agency continues to hold approximately three dozen al-Qaeda suspects in secret overseas prisons. He maintained that the United States is likely to keep them in captivity for as long as the war on terror continues. These detainees are effectively denied access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, and subjected to treatment and interrogation that is not monitored by any court or independent entity. The only plausible reason for these detainees is that the United States wants to keep their treatment and conditions of confinement secret presumably because it includes torture and abuse.

Notably, the State Department, in its recent Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (released on March 8, 2006 and covering events in 2005), condemned Belarus, Burma, China, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Nepal, North Korea, Philippines, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe for holding individuals in incommunicado detention and for engaging in

Human Rights Watch hopes that the Committee will vigorously question the United States about its detainees and the use of practices that it rightly condemns when engaged in by other nations.

IV. Diplomatic Assurance and Rendition to Torture (Article 3)

The United States continues to promote its policy of relying on diplomatic assurances as a safeguard against a return to torture. In December, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated: The United States has not transported anyone, and will not transport anyone, to a country when we believe he will be tortured. Where appropriate, the United States seeks assurances that transferred persons will not be tortured. But the United States does not have any meaningful mechanism to monitor these assurances even when the individual is being sent to a country with a known record of engaging in torture. Moreover, there do not appear to be any opportunities for individuals to formally challenge their rendition or transfer on the grounds that the diplomatic assurances are not likely to provide sufficient protection from torture. Despite numerous examples in which diplomatic assurances were secured and individuals were subjected to torture anyway, the United States continues to rely on these unenforceable assurances.

(a) Past Cases

The Committee is already well aware of the highly publicized case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was detained by the United States. in September 2002. U.S. immigration authorities held him for two weeks, during which time he was unable to challenge either his detention or imminent transfer to a country likely to torture him. Relying on diplomatic assurances from Syria, the United States then flew Arar to Jordan, where he was driven across the border to Syria and detained there for ten months. The United States relied on the Syrian assurances despite repeated statements from Arar to immigration authorities that he would be subject to torture if sent to Syria. Arar reports that he was beaten by security officers in Jordan and tortured repeatedly, often with cables and electrical cords, during his confinement in a Syrian prison.

But the Arar case is not the only instance in which someone in United States custody has been rendered to torture.

Another example is that of Mamdouh Habib, who was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and transferred by U.S. officials to a prison in Egypt where he says he was tortured with electric shocks until he fainted, kicked, punched, beaten, and rammed with what he describes as an electric cattle prod. Dr. Hajib al-Naumi, Qatars former justice minister provides corroboration for Habibs account. Dr. al-Naumi states that contacts of his in Egypt told him that Habib was in fact tortured. He was interrogated in a way which a human cannot stand up We were told that he -- they rang the bell that he will die and somebody had to help him.

An additional case is that of Mohammad Saad Iqbal Madmi, who was arrested in Jakarta allegedly at the request of the CIA and flown to Cairo, where he says he was held for 92 days and severely tortured with electrodes. Madmi was subsequently sent from Egypt to Afghanistan and then to the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Other detainees in Guantanamo Bay have given similar accounts to the media and to their attorneys of being transferred to a third party country and tortured before being sent to Guantanamo.

Presumably the United States followed its stated policy of reliance on diplomatic assurances before it sent either Habib or Madmi to Egypt. Alternatively, it rendered these individuals to Egypt without such assurances despite the State Departments own finding that [t]orture and abuse of prisoners and detainees by [Egyptian] police, security personnel, and prison guards remained common and persistent.

Human Rights Watch hopes that the Committee will ask the United States whether it obtained diplomatic assurances in these cases. If not, why not, given the evidence of persistent torture and abuse of detainees. And if so, what did they do to follow up to ensure that these detainees were not subject to torture?

(b) Future cases

Human Rights Watch is extremely concerned about the potential for large-scale reliance on diplomatic assurances in future transfers of individuals out of Guantanamo Bay. There is growing international pressure on the United States to close Guantanamo Bay. The United States has begun making public statements that it has slated 14 detainees eligible for release and 120 for transfer to their home country.

There is no administrative or legal mechanism, however, for a detainee at Guantanamo Bay to challenge his transfer to a country on the grounds that he would be in danger of torture and that diplomatic assurances are not likely to provide sufficient protection from torture. Prior to the passage of the DTA, some detainees were able to raise such claims in federal court as part of their habeas challenges. In several cases, the federal court required the government to give 30-days notice prior to any such transfer. Now, the administration has taken the view that the DTA cuts off even this limited avenue of review for the detainees.

V. Lack of Accountability (Articles 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 16)

Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law have jointly undertaken a Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project (DAA Project) to collect and analyze information about allegations of detainee abuse in U.S. custody in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Guantanamo Bay detention facility; and to assess what actions if any were taken in response, from investigations to, where appropriate, disciplinary actions and punishments. These findings have just been released in a report published on April 26, 2006. Among the findings are the following:

There are over 330 cases in which U.S. military and civilian personnel are credibly alleged to have abused or killed detainees. These cases involve at least 600 U.S. personnel and over 460 detainees. Allegations have come from U.S. facilities throughout Afghanistan, Iraq and at Guantánamo Bay.

Only fifty-four military personnelfewer than ten percent of the more than 600 U.S. personnel implicated in detainee abuse casesare known to have been convicted by court-martial. Forty of these individuals have been sentenced to prison time, but only a small number have resulted in significant prison time. Many sentences have been for less than a year, even in cases involving serious abuse. Of the hundreds of personnel implicated in detainee abuse, only ten people have been sentenced to a year or more in prison.

Of the hundreds of allegations of abuse collected by the DAA Project, only about half appear to have been properly investigated. In numerous cases, military investigators appear to have closed investigations prematurely or to have delayed their resolution. In many cases, the military has simply failed to open investigations, even in cases where credible allegations have been made.

DAA Project researchers found over 400 personnel have been implicated in cases investigated by military or civilian authorities, but only about a third of them have faced any kind of disciplinary or criminal action. And even in cases where U.S. military investigations have substantiated abuse, military commanders have often chosen to proceed with weaker non-judicial forms of disciplinary action instead of criminal prosecution.

No U.S. military officer has been held accountable for criminal acts committed by subordinates under the doctrine of command responsibility. That doctrine provides that a superior is responsible for the criminal acts of subordinates if the superior knew or should have known that the crimes were being committed and failed to take steps to prevent them or to punish the perpetrators. Only three officers have been convicted by court-martial for detainee abuse; in all three instances, they were convicted for abuses in which they directly participated, not for their responsibility as commanders.

The CIA has investigated several cases of abuse involving its personnel, and reportedly referred some individuals to the Department of Justice for prosecution. But few cases have been robustly investigated.

Out of twenty civilians, including CIA agents, referred for criminal prosecution for detainee abuse by the military and the CIA since 2002, the Department of Justice has prosecuted just one civilian contractor. Two of the cases have been closed for insufficient evidence, and the other seventeen remain under investigation. The Department of Justice has not indicted a single CIA agent for abusing detainees.

One case that particularly highlights the failure of accountability is that of Mohammad al-Qahtani. Human Rights Watch has obtained an unredacted copy of al-Qahtanis interrogation log, detailing interrogations from a six-week period from November 2002 to January 2003. The interrogation log reveals that al-Qahtani was subjected to a regime of physical and mental mistreatment from mid-November 2002 to early January 2003. For six weeks, he was intentionally deprived of sleep, forced into painful physical positions (known as stress positions) and subjected to forced exercises, forced standing, and sexual and other physical humiliation, including the administration of a forced enema. In 2005, the Judge Advocates General of the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps told the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services that the techniques used on al-Qahtani violated the U.S. Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation, and would have been illegal if perpetrated by another country on captured U.S. personnel.

In December 20, 2005, the Army Inspector General, completed a report, obtained by salon.com in April 2006, that investigated the allegations of abuse in the al-Qahtani case. The report contains a sworn statement by Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt that implicates Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the abuse of detainee Mohammad al-Qahtani. Gen. Schmidt, who conducted an investigation into the case in early 2005 that included two interviews with Rumsfeld, describes the defense secretary as being personally involved in al-Qahtanis interrogation. Gen. Schmidt describes Rumsfeld as talking weekly with General Geoffrey Miller, then a senior commander at Guantanamo, about the interrogation of al-Qahtani.

The report findings and recommendations were rejected by the head of U.S. Southern Command, Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, who said in July 2005 that the al-Qahtani interrogation did not violate military law or policy. As a result, neither Secretary Rumsfeld, General Miller, nor any of the interrogators who took part in the interrogations have been criminally investigated or made to account in any way for their actions.

VI. Lethal Injection (Articles 13, 14, and 16)

Thirty-seven of the thirty-eight death penalty states and the federal government have adopted lethal injection as the procedure by which the death penalty is administered; for nineteen states it is the only legal method of execution. Human Rights Watch has just completed a report examining these practices, which finds that the states have failed to develop methods of lethal injection that will, in accordance with international law, reduce to the greatest extent possible the risk of pain and suffering during the execution. Indeed, there is growing evidence suggesting that in a number of cases the method used may have caused an agonizing death.

In the standard method of lethal injection used in the United States, the prisoner lies strapped to a gurney, a catheter is inserted into his vein with an intravenous line attached. A series of three drugs is injected into his vein by executioners hidden behind a wall. A massive dose of sodium thiopental, an anesthetic, is injected first, followed by pancuronium bromide, which paralyzes voluntary muscles, but leaves the prisoner fully conscious and able to experience pain. A third drug, potassium chloride, quickly causes cardiac arrest, but the drug is so painful that veterinarian guidelines in the United States prohibit its use unless a veterinarian first ensures that the pet to be put down is deeply unconscious. No such precaution is taken for prisoners being executed.

Although supporters of lethal injection believe the prisoner dies painlessly, there is mounting evidence that prisoners may have experienced excruciating pain during their executions. Logs from recent executions in California, and toxicology reports from recent executions in North Carolina, suggest prisoners may in fact have been inadequately anesthetized before being put to death. This should not be surprising given that corrections agencies have not taken the steps necessary to ensure a painless execution. The sequence of drugs and a method of administration used were created three decades ago, and were then adopted unquestioningly by state officials with no medical or scientific background. Little has changed since then. As a result, prisoners in the United States are executed by means that the American Veterinary Medical Association regards as too cruel to use on dogs and cats.

Human Rights Watch has found that none of the states that employ lethal injection consulted medical experts to ascertain whether the original three-drug sequence could be adapted to lessen the risk of pain to the prisoner by using other drugs or methods of administering them. Human Rights Watch opposes capital punishment in all forms as inherently cruel. But until the 38 death penalty states and the federal government abolish capital punishment, they have an obligation to develop methods of execution that will reduce, to the greatest extent possible, the condemned prisoners risk of mental or physical pain and suffering. Human Rights Watch hopes that the Committee will question the U.S. about its failure to ensure that the method of lethal injection does not cause needless agony.

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Saturday night we dropped a 3-1 (20-25, 12-25, 25-23, 13-25) decision to defending CalPac Champion, Holy Names University. The stat lines were almost identical but the Hawks made the critical opportunities count. So after a good fight against this tough team, we are now 3-9 overall and 2-2 in CalPac Conference action.

Seniors Treva Crocker and Emily White were the stat leaders. Treva put down 11 kills and 2 blocks and Emily collected 16 digs.

Holy Names is the toughest conference team that we have faced thus far, but they are definitely a squad that we can butt heads with. We play them again in a month, so we will aim to go in to their place and BATTLE!

On tap this week - We travel to face current CalPac leader, Menlo College (4-0) for a 7pm match start on Friday, Oct 4 in Atherton. On Saturday, we host the second Annual Bethany Volleyball Alumni Day. Festivities will begin with a BBQ at 3:30 p.m. as the current team will have the opportunity to great and eat with former Bruin greats and their families before facing them on the court that night at 7pm.

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BOTC: I think me, Panjandrum and EMAW could write an entire dissertation on the cause and effect of our poor run defense. The gist of it is bad schemes, poor tackling and undersized personnel. For some reason, our coaching staff decided last year that the 3-4 was a good idea, despite the fact that less than 1 percent (that's an imaginary statistic) of competent football teams run such a scheme. Our blitzes fool nobody and our players aren't sure where they're supposed to be. Next up is poor tackling. We have a lot of players who go for a "hit" without even attempting to wrap up. Others simply think they can arm tackle the ball carrier. Still others don't seem to grasp the idea that the goal of defense is to get the knee of the other team's ball carrier on the ground.
Finally, our defensive front is, for the most part, not very big. Daniel Calvin is a big guy in the middle, but with only three down linemen, we constantly have linebackers on the line of scrimmage, and I just know opposing offensive linemen are licking their chops to get a shot at 210 pound linebackers on running plays.
You brought up the integration of JuCos, and I see that woven through all the problems described above. Granted, the schematics side of it is mostly a coaching problem, but some of that problem is that we have a lot of players who only have a month or so in the system, rather than those with a year or two. That can't help with getting into position on the field. But where I think the JuCo problems are most pronounced is in the poor tackling fundamentals. These JuCo guys have always been the biggest, fastest, strongest guys on the field. They're used to being able to level other players with devastating hits or pull them down with arm tackles. Now that they're up against bigger, stronger faster players, they can't do so anymore. As K-Staters, we can only hope the adage that the best thing about young players is that they turn into, uhh, less-young players.

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Saturday night we dropped a 3-1 (20-25, 12-25, 25-23, 13-25) decision to defending CalPac Champion, Holy Names University. The stat lines were almost identical but the Hawks made the critical opportunities count. So after a good fight against this tough team, we are now 3-9 overall and 2-2 in CalPac Conference action.

Seniors Treva Crocker and Emily White were the stat leaders. Treva put down 11 kills and 2 blocks and Emily collected 16 digs.

Holy Names is the toughest conference team that we have faced thus far, but they are definitely a squad that we can butt heads with. We play them again in a month, so we will aim to go in to their place and BATTLE!

On tap this week - We travel to face current CalPac leader, Menlo College (4-0) for a 7pm match start on Friday, Oct 4 in Atherton. On Saturday, we host the second Annual Bethany Volleyball Alumni Day. Festivities will begin with a BBQ at 3:30 p.m. as the current team will have the opportunity to great and eat with former Bruin greats and their families before facing them on the court that night at 7pm.

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