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Ghost Plane - The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program (Paperback)
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Ghost Plane - The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program (Paperback)
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On June 10th, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that
the US had captured a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to
explode a "dirty bomb" on American soil. That alleged terrorist was
Jose Padilla who was finally charged in 2005 with conspiracy to
murder. What Ashcroft didn't talk about was how information against
him was obtained - by the relentless torture of one man-- Binyam
Mohamed, in the name of the United States. Arrested at Karachi
Airport before Padilla's arrest on April 10, 2002, Mohamed was put
on a luxury executive jet and flown to an interrogation center in
Morocco. For over 18 months, he was subjected to one torture after
another: Beating followed beating and, then, his guards produced
razor blades and began to split the skin all over his body,
including on his genitals. Since 1997, hundreds of people, many of
whom have no ties to terrorist organizations, have been abducted
from foreign airports or street corners on suspicions based at
times on the flimsiest of evidence courtesy of the United States
Central Intelligence Agency. In "Ghost Plane," Stephen Grey tells
the true story of the CIA's torture program known by the euphemism
"extraordinary rendition" and the airplanes that make the program
run. Begun during the Clinton administration, but taking a
decidedly more voracious turn after 9/11, the rendition system has
seen the transfer of more than 1000 prisoners into jails stretching
from Guantanamo to Syria, from Kabul to Bangkok and beyond. Grey
had access to the thousands of CIA flight records and has
interviewed dozens of sources from the most senior levels of the
National Security Council to the CIA. In Ghost Plane, he paints a
disturbing picture of the War on Terror that reaches to the highest
levels of power in Washington, D.C. and exposes the extreme ethical
corruption at the heart of this US government program, a program
finally acknowledged by President George Bush in September 2006,
undertaken in the name of the citizens of the United States.. "
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