Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights - Softcover

Paglen, Trevor

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9781840468304: Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights

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ISBN 10: 1840468300 ISBN 13: 9781840468304

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd, 2007

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This is an investigative journalism in the mould of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. This is an incredible story of shadowy CIA kidnappings followed by imprisonment and torture. The secret may be out, but the horror remains in this original expose of extraordinary rendition. This is the incredible story of how the CIA's darkest secret of the War on Terror - the 'extraordinary rendition' programme - was exposed. It's no longer a secret: since 9/11, the CIA has quietly kidnapped more than a hundred people and detained them at prisons throughout the world. Often, the detainees are tortured or disappear entirely. Now infamous, the 'extraordinary rendition' programme is a key part of the largest clandestine operation since the end of the Cold War. In this shocking book, an award-winning investigative journalist and a 'military geographer' explore the programme in journeys around the world: to suburban Massachusetts to profile a CIA front company supplying the agency with planes; to North Carolina to track down the pilots; to the San Francisco suburbs to study with a planespotter who monitors the CIA's movements; and to Afghanistan, where they visit the notorious Salt Pit prison and interview released Afghan detainees. The kidnappings have not stopped. On the contrary, the rendition programme has been formalised, colluding with the military when necessary, and constantly changing its cover to remain hidden from sight. This is a chilling looking at the logistics of torture which shows how far Bush is prepared to go in the 'war on terror'.

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Review:

"'We don't kick the shit out of them, we send them to other countries so they can get the shit kicked out of them.' US official involved in CIA renditions 'Exhilarating... Paglen and Thompson provide a comprehensive look at the ways the CIA hides its operations, and at the brave citizens who have cracked its codes. It paints a mysterious and frightening picture.' Time Out Chicago"

From the Author:

Trevor Paglen is an expert on clandestine military installations and a widely exhibited artist and photographer. A.C. Thompson is a winner of a 2005 George Polk Award, whose reportage helped lead to the exoneration of two innocent men who'd been wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

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