Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture ProgramSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2006 M10 17 - 384 pages For the first time, Stephen Grey tells the inside story of international prisons sanctioned by the U.S. Government and used by the CIA to hold and torture people suspected of terrorism. |
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... Afghanistan . He wondered what more he could say . " After the time went by , " he remembered , I got into a very , very desperate situation , where I wanted to be out of that place at any cost , and that's when I realized , to be in ...
... Afghanistan . Though America's allies in Afghanistan were often Is- lamic fundamentalists , this was a war that commanded support across the political spectrum . The United States was not here trying some undercover war to topple a ...
... Afghanistan , the CIA established its own prisons on foreign soil . Local guards " prepared " the prisoners - and CIA contractors did the actual ques- tioning . Part 3 is the story of the backlash against these renditions ; of how ...
... Afghanistan ; opening vaults of intelligence on Islamic militant groups ; and coordinating arrest operations of hundreds of militant suspects . Many of these offers of help were announced pub- licly . But of course there was also much ...
... Afghanistan , Uzbekistan , and Thailand . Determining the exact scale of the program was always going to be hard and imprecise , because the details of these transfers were kept clas- sified by the CIA . George Tenet , when director of ...
Contents
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A German Citizens Journey | 79 |
Unmasking the New Air America | 105 |
The Secret War Against Al Qaeda | 129 |
The Ice | 155 |
Our Man in Tashkent | 205 |
Rendition and the Law | 214 |
The Realpolitik of Torture | 236 |
Epilogue | 263 |
Appendixes | 277 |
Acknowledgments | 319 |
153 | 366 |
Index | 377 |
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Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program Stephen Grey No preview available - 2007 |