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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... tion . Ahead are two small toilets , and to your left and right are minicorri- dors where you will find a series of what look like monastic cells on either side . On each side there are five of them facing another five oppo- site ...
... tion . Far better , he told me , to have snatched a dictator like the former Yugoslav president , Slobodan Milosevic , and haul him to The Hague to face a war crimes trial , than to launch a war like President Clinton had and cause the ...
... tion publicly . They insisted the United States " does not do torture . " Yet such claims were falsehoods . Torture is defined in law as the deliberate infliction by state officials of " severe pain , whether physical or mental . " Such ...
... tion operation , however , was already swinging into action . Fifteen minutes ' walk from Persson's residence , an immigration lawyer was sitting at his desk in his downtown office . Kjell Jönsson was com- pleting a rather ordinary day ...
... prison.35 The emphasis about Torah prison was misleading . The men's interroga- tion , as the lawyer al - Zayat had warned me , had taken place before they arrived there . But at that first meeting , Agiza 34 TORTURE DESTINATION.
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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