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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... later . But suffice for now to say Salloum extracts information , or at least confessions , by extreme force , both physical and psychological . The Palestine Branch is a house of confession . In cell number 2 is Maher Arar , a Canadian ...
... later be found innocent of all charges . Every day , Maher is brought out of his cell to face Salloum and his team of in- terrogators . Among their worst methods is one known as the " German chair , " so called because it is said to ...
... later found indications the plane 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 ...
... later as director of the CIA launched a campaign against those leaking information about the CIA's classified programs , who set me on the trail of what is the subject of this book : the rendition program of the CIA , a program of ...
... later , there he was , sitting in a luxury Gulfstream business jet , staring at the clouds like some VIP jet - setter-— even though his legs were shackled and he had no champagne . It was this detail in the story , the use of these ...
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 |