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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... September 11 plot Abu Zubaydah , senior associate of OBL The Agency John M. Deutch , director of Central Intelligence , 1995-1996 George Tenet , director of Central Intelligence , 1997-2004 Porter Goss , director of Central Intelligence ...
... September 11 , 2001 led to the lifting again of restrictions on covert CIA warfare , the agency's officers were not evolving some new " thinking out of the box " experimental methods . They were dusting off the old manuals . The Romans ...
... September 11 , Al Qaeda achieved what the Soviet Union had never dared attempt . It struck a direct blow into the heart of Ameri- can power , destroying the Twin Towers , damaging the Pentagon , and very nearly hitting the White House ...
... September 11 , and moved shortly on- ward to Washington , D.C. , for several weeks . The vindictive mood was palpable . I remember a T - shirt on sale in Maryland with a picture of an F16 plane and the slogan " Hijack this , ass - hole ...
... September 11. Al - Sirri was later cleared of these charges . A judge de- scribed him as an " innocent fall guy . " 31 But at the time of his October ar- rest , Scotland Yard had seized al - Sirri's computer hard drive and fax machine ...
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 |