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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... 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 " Sandy " Berger , deputy National Security advisor ...
... involved was a CIA - owned Gulf- stream executive jet.12 In Syria , the torture continued , and Abdel Halim in particular seems to have gotten it the worst . " He was treated really bad . He was brought down from the interrogation room ...
... involved a loss of control . A CIA station chief like John Hortons could not issue a direct order to Colonel Rodriguez . Horton might issue official or written guidance on how to interrogate a suspect without electric cattle prods . But ...
... involved in drug trafficking it- self , the air operation sustained a force that guarded some of the world's most lucrative opium fields . The Meo were regarded as the lesser of two evils . But here again was a clear hypocrisy , of the ...
... involved the incarceration of thousands of prisoners , not just the few hundred in Cuba . While the president spoke of spreading liberty across the world , CIA insiders spoke of a return to the old days of work- ing hand in glove with ...
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 |