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Ghost Plane - The Untold Story of the CIA's Secret Rendition Programme (Hardcover)
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Ghost Plane - The Untold Story of the CIA's Secret Rendition Programme (Hardcover)
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In December 2005, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State,
assured the world that the flights of CIA private jets that have
criss-crossed Europe since 9/11 had no role in the sending of
prisoners to be tortured. 'The United States has not transported
anyone, and will not transport anyone, to a country when we believe
he will be tortured,' she said. Tony Blair assured Parliament: 'I
have absolutely no evidence to suggest that anything illegal has
been happening here at all.' But as Stephen Grey reveals in "Ghost
Plane", Rice's claims were a falsehood - and Britain's government
has also turned a blind eye to a CIA operation that systematically
out-sourced the harsh interrogation of its captives. Interviewing
sources from the most senior levels of the current and former US
administration, from the CIA's department of operations, Grey
reveals how the agency's program, known by the euphemism
'extraordinary rendition', has transported hundreds of prisoners to
foreign jails and its own secret facilities in the full knowledge
they will face harsh torture. 'Of course we do torture', one former
senior CIA operative told Grey. 'Imagine putting President Bush's
head under water and telling him to raise his hand when he thinks
he's being tortured. Give him the water-board treatment, and he'd
be raising his hand straightaway.' From the dark cells of Syria's
'Palestine Branch' interrogation center - where inmates are
detained for months on end in cells the size of coffins - to secret
CIA jails in Afghanistan that bombard prisoners with 24-hour rock
music, Grey uses the prisoners' accounts and thousands of CIA jet
flight logs to weave a vivid tale of life inside this hidden
'extra-legal' netherworld that is America's international prison
network. Including interviews with pilots that flew the CIA's jets
and packed with exclusive revelations, "Ghost Plane" reveals the
extraordinary detective work that tracked down the Agency's covert
aviation network. Grey shows how it emerged from the former Air
America that flew in Vietnam and Laos. Tracing the history of
rendition back to the mid-1990s, he then shows how after 9/11
rendition expanded beyond recognition into what amounted to a
systematic torture program - a terrifying world of endless
interrogations, frequent transfers round the world, and detention
without charge And all was authorised by the White House.
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