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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... ment that , little by little , destroys the prisoner's mind . Dragged for months or even years from prison to prison , from country to country , with no hope of release , no hope of appearing in court INTRODUCTION 21.
... court , or no hope of facing con- crete 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 ...
... court- house in April 1865 and heard news of the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Con- federate armies at Appomattox.15 On a Sunday , when I visited , its streets resounded with Harley - Davidsons heading for their local hangout , the Last ...
... court . Before the prisoner came to court he had the chance to meet and discuss his treat- ment not only with a prosecutor but also with his own lawyer . But al- Zayat explained the government's trick : " When a prisoner is sent back to ...
... court . Egypt had ac- cused Agiza of being a key member of Islamic Jihad , one of the regime's fiercest foes , and of helping plot the 1995 bomb attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad , Pakistan . He was also said to have once been ...
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 |