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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... terror . Admittedly , it is not where President George W. Bush would take vis- itors on a showpiece tour , and yet here in this dungeon , on this day , De- cember 17 , 2002 , are at least seven prisoners who claim to have arrived ...
... terror , many compro- mises were being made . By now , the middle of December 2002 , Maher's interrogations had be ... terrorist suspects . The only pressure on Syria was to become tougher . Bashar declared : " As for the issue of ...
... terror too important to lose ? And whose side were countries like Syria really on ? It is this dark side of the war on terror , and its uncomfortable truths , that this book explores . IntroducTION : NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH MONTEVIDEO ...
... terror , they argued that a higher objective required the use , from time to time , of methods that might appear unpalatable . A glimpse of some of the more extreme methods of covert action oc- casionally employed in the cold war comes ...
... terror with terror . Our guys are trained to do the things that tradi- tionally the other guys have done : kidnap , hijack , infiltrate . " 20 Yet it was perhaps the more liberal commentators who were most influential . They queued up ...
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 |