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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... jail who had been handed over by the United States . In cell number 17 is a prisoner called Barah ; in cell number 7 is Bahaa , age twenty - nine . Both say they were arrested in Pak- istan and then interrogated by U.S. agents before ...
... ago " he was portraying a parallel world that existed within physical reach of everyday life but yet could remain unseen to ordinary people.26 After years of persecution , Solzhenitsyn described a jail system that 16 INTRODUCTION.
... jail system that he knew from firsthand experience had swallowed millions of citizens into its en- trails . At least a tenth of them never emerged alive.27 The modern world of prisons run by the United States and its allies in the war ...
... jails across the world , the CIA knew that the tor- ture of these men was inevitable . Contrary to what was claimed ... jails , including to countries where they had never lived or had left decades earlier , and where they faced no ...
... jail building was the headquarters of Egyptian State Security ( ESS ) , the internal secret police . It was also an interrogation cen- ter . I had an appointment , I thought , with a secret policeman inside . I en- tered through the ...
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 |