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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... held in the same cell for ten months . Later an offi- cial inquiry would find his account of physical and mental torture to be truthful.7 Next door to Maher in cell number 3 , is a fellow Canadian named Ab- dullah Almalki . Maher is ...
... 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 that involved the incarceration of thousands of prisoners ...
... held prisoners like these in their personal custody , CIA chiefs who planned the rendition program , and White House officials who ordered and authorized the missions . These men and women told me that the rendition program was vital ...
... held within its confines , the torture of rendition came not from the tactics of the interrogators . Those pains could be endured . The system itself was the torture . Ordered and authorized from the top of the White House , the ...
... held , were members of an illegal terrorist organization . Today , in an unusual fashion , the Swedish cabinet had functioned as both judge and jury . It was SAPO and the CIA now that would execute their guilty verdict . By the time ...
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 |