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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... former CIA chief of station in Milan , accused of involvement in the rendition of Abu Omar The White House William J. Clinton , president of the United States , 1993-2001 George W. Bush , president of the United States , 2001- Samuel ...
... former prisoners , would describe Syria's torture methods as including : administering electrical shocks ; pulling out fingernails ; forcing ob- jects into the rectum ; beating , sometimes while the victim is sus- pended from the ...
... , in future , outlaw officers like Agee from revealing what they knew . President George H. W. Bush , a former head of the CIA himself , once said he would forgive many people in his life , but he would never forgive Philip Agee.3 Despite.
... former U.S. Army colonel , Alex Sands , for example , declared : " The whole point of using special operations is to fight terror with terror . Our guys are trained to do the things that tradi- tionally the other guys have done : kidnap ...
... former leader of Egypt's Islamic Jihad , and had even met bin Laden himself.29 In contrast to Agiza's known charge sheet , few were able to find much evidence of any accusations against al - Zery . Egypt was said to be prepar- ing ...
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 |