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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... detainees into the frame of a wheel and whipping exposed body parts ; and using a chair that bends backwards to asphyxiate the vic- tim or fracture the victim's spine.17 In January 2002 , Bush had declared an " axis of evil " composed ...
... detainees " rather than " prisoners , " trussed up and held in what appeared to be cages . As I continued my reporting in Washington , I heard whispers that there was something much bigger going on : a system of clandestine pris- ons ...
... detainees held by the United States under wartime powers , with no rights as civilians . But , regarding the global conflict with Al Qaeda in this way as a war , he would abandon the Geneva Conventions , or at least those parts of the ...
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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 |