The sources said the maid... had normally been assigned to clean a different floor in the hotel but recently volunteered to take the floor of Strauss-Kahn's luxury suite after a colleague went on leave.

The maid reported she entered Strauss-Kahn's room shortly before noon on Saturday, May 14, after a room-service employee assured her the suite was empty.

A floor cleaning supervisor found her in the hallway around 12:30. She said she was hiding and waiting for DSK to leave. He had left to check out moments before.

The supervisor took her into DSK's suite to hear what happened, and after hearing the maid's account, the cleaning supervisor called her supervisor, also in housekeeping. After she told the second supervisor, they called hotel security and a security officer came to the suite and interviewed her. He then called his supervisor in security, a former law enforcement official, who came and interviewed her. Then they called police.

The four interviews (and time it took her to calm down enough to relate what happened) took about an hour and police were called around 1:30.

Strauss-Kahn's lawyer, Ben Brafman, interviewed in Israel today by a French tv station, says he believes DSK will be acquitted as their investigation to date shows the accusations are false.

“From what I have seen already in the file, I am confident,” said Brafman, whose comments in English were translated into French for broadcast. “If he can have a fair trial, at the end of the hearings he will be acquitted. From the investigations we have carried out, I believe the accusations will prove false.”

Reuters has a timeline. One thing that doesn't add up is the alleged phone call in which DSK purportedly asked the hotel to bring him his phone at the airport. According to Reuters:

SATURDAY, about 3.30 P.M. - Strauss-Kahn called the hotel to ask about his missing mobile phone and asked that it be delivered to him at the airport.I think the security officer to whom his call was routed offered to bring it to him.

I don't think he asked for the phone to be brought to the airport. That was the police's idea.

It wasn't DSK's only phone. He made other calls that afternoon including from the car on the way to the airport.

By that time [of the phone call], cops were at the hotel -- and instructed staffers to tell him they had his phone and to ask where he was, the sources said. "Where are you? We'll get it to you," one staffer told him, according to the sources.

He said he was arriving at JFK for his flight -- and Port Authority cops pulled him off an Airbus 380 -- where he was sitting in first class -- at 4:38 p.m., two minutes before takeoff.

The Post also says Strauss-Kahn "mistakenly" thought he had left a cell phone at the hotel. If he was mistaken, there was no phone.

He had lunch with his daughter a few blocks from the hotel. At 2:15, his car arrived to take him to the airport. His flight was at 4:40. At 3:30, when he called, his flight was in 1 hour and 10 minutes. Surely he knew a hotel employee wouldn't be able to get to the airport, through security and to the gate, and get the phone to him (before doors closed) in 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Also, he left the hotel for lunch, a few blocks from the hotel, in a Yellow Cab. A car picked him up to take him to the airport. Where? Back at the hotel? Why wouldn't he have gone back in to ask about his phone? The Guardian reports law enforcement sources as saying when he called, it was to ask whether he had left anything at the hotel (not a phone.)

The law enforcement source said investigators believe that Strauss-Kahn phoned the Sofitel at 3.30pm, presumably from the airport, and asked if he had left anything at the hotel.

They said the hotel worker was told to reply they had found a phone and would bring it to him. But other reports say they called him back to tell him that. Did he also give them his phone number? Sure doesn't sound like he was trying to avoid them.

As to the fortuitous arrival at the last minute, as if the plane would have been gone had they arrived five minutes later, police sources also say that's not true. They had called ahead to have the plane held till they got there. Also from The Guardian:

Instead, New York police arranged with the Port Authority to have Strauss-Kahn's plane held at the gate until detectives arrived.

Same version here. Did they have an arrest warrant? Or need one to have the plane held, or to board a French plane after doors had been closed? Does hot pursuit of a fleeing suspect extend this far?

Other inconsistencies from the police. New York Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told CNN that the maid went to the front desk to report the attack. Clearly, that's not what the other hotel workers say. All the interviews took place in the 28th floor suite.

Nor do the workers allege, as Browne claimed, that DSK chased her down the hall.

New York Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said the economist emerged naked from a room, ran down a hallway after the woman, and attacked her.

The whole incident, if it occurred, took place in the suite. But even those reports aren't consistent. The early news reports have her in the foyer and him jumping out at her naked from the bedroom. What came out in court, according to NPR: She was cleaning the bedroom when he emerged from the bathroom.

As spelled out in court, by police sources and in news reports, the maid entered the hotel suite where Strauss-Kahn was staying, thinking it was empty. She walked into the suite, called out to make sure nobody was there and, when she didn't get an answer, went to the bedroom area to begin cleaning. At that point, Strauss-Kahn walked out of the bathroom naked. The maid apologized and turned to leave, but she made it only as far as the foyer. Strauss-Kahn allegedly ran up behind her, closed the door, locked it and dragged her into the bedroom where, according to the criminal complaint, he forced her to perform oral sex. The maid told the police that she broke free and ran out of the bedroom, but was caught again and dragged this time into the bathroom, where Strauss-Kahn once again tried to force her into sexual acts. She broke free again, and this time managed to escape. She immediately reported the attack to her supervisor, and the hotel quickly called the police.

According to the French and African news sites which have identified the maid, she's 6 feet tall and weighs 200 pounds. How did this 62 year old, smaller, out of shape man drag her repeatedly from room to room?

Lastly, what happened to the claim of anal sexual contact? It was in the complaint, but it's not in the Indictment. The criminal complaint, available here, alleges that Strauss-Kahn forced the woman to engage "in oral sexual conduct and anal sexual conduct" and tried to force her to engage in sexual intercourse.

I doubt they made it up out of thin air, it must have been what the maid initially reported for it to be in the Complaint. Did she change what happened before her grand jury appearance?

As for the latest stories that he asked two receptionists if they wanted to have a drink with him, how does that bear on whether he forced anyone to have sex? They said no, he apparently didn't pursue it further. Just because he's a womanizer doesn't mean he's a rapist. Trials take place in courtrooms, not living rooms or on the internet. The facts are murky and the allegations untested in a court. This rush to judgment that he's guilty is so unbecoming.