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Ghost plane: The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Rendition Programme
Ghost plane The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Rendition Programme Author:Stephen Grey 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 sending 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. ... more »Tony Blair assured Parliament: 'I have absolutely no evidence to suggest that anything illegal has been happening here at all.' But as the author reveals in Ghost plane, Rice's claims were a falsehood - and the British government has also turned a blind eye to a CIA operation that systematically out-sources the harsh interrogation of its captives. Grey reveals how the agency's programme, 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. From the dark cells of Syria's 'Palestine Branch' interrogation centre - where inmates are detained for months on end in cells the size of coffins - to secret CIA jails in Afghanistan that bombard prisoners with rock music 24 hours a day, Grey uses the prisoners' accounts an« less