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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... charge of the center is a man named George Salloum , an officer of the Syrian military intelligence , dressed in a pair of pressed pants , a golf shirt , and a pair of fine leather shoes . He might seem an unlikely ally for the United ...
... charges . Every day , Maher is brought out of his cell to face Salloum and his team of in- terrogators . Among their worst methods is one known as the " German chair , " so called because it is said to have been given to them by the ...
... charge knew the prisoner would be tortured . After 9/11 the rendition system went much , much further . As I shall argue , it moved from a system where torture was incidental to a system where interrogations and torture were actively ...
... charges , rendition for many became a tunnel with no light at the end . And for those held within its confines , the torture of rendition came not from the tactics of the interrogators . Those pains could be endured . The system itself ...
... charge sheet , few were able to find much evidence of any accusations against al - Zery . Egypt was said to be prepar- ing charges against him . It was not clear what they were . I later interviewed an Egyptian activist in London who ...
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 |