in the lawsuit, captioned stefan frederick cook v. wanda l. good (colonel wanda l. good -commander, u.s. army human resources command – st. louis) and filed in the united states district court for the middle district of georgia, cook asserted that he "would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the united states under this president's command. ... simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties." in april, before cook volunteered for deployment to afghanistan, he had been included in taitz's list of people she said she represented as plaintiffs, in a letter raising the citizenship issue.