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WINNER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for BEST INTERNATIONAL REPORTING ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN ANY MEDIUM NEW ON WEB: The Guantanamo Airlift - how Europe helped the US establish its prison in Cuba "SECRET flight plans of American military planes have revealed for the first time how European countries helped send prisoners, including British citizens, to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Despite widespread criticism of alleged human rights abuses and torture at the US base, a Sunday Times investigation reveals how at least five European countries gave the United States permission to fly nearly 700 terrorist suspects across their territory. The new flight logs show how most prisoners changed planes at a Turkish air base, flew across Greek, Italian and Portuguese air space, and some even came to Cuba after touching down in Spain, a country whose governing socialist party once expressed “indignation” at conditions in Guantanamo... Full story published in Sunday Times, London WEB EXCLUSIVE: Background information / Miltary flight logs / Breakdown of prisoner flights
GHOSTPLANE BOOK - REVISED EDITION NOW OUT IN PAPERBACK "Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons Program - An explosive new book provides a rare glimpse into the full extent of the agency's controversial terror renditions - and the curious coalition of partners who helped the U.S. pull them off "--- Time Magazine. "The secret police of Middle Eastern countries freely torture, and their tools of the trade -- as Stephen Grey shows in his powerful and damning "Ghost Plane" -- include razor blades ... His attention to detail can be chilling." ... The Washington Post "a short but essential history of rendition .. the chilling story of rendition and torture" ... The New York Review of Books. "Brilliant ... gripping and chilling.. " .. The Sydney Morning Herald MORE REVIEWS AND MEDIA COVERAGE * * * Ghost Plane is now published in the US and Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, South Africa, Australia, and Japan. details * *
"EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION " - BROADCAST ON PBS NOV 6th, 2007 - Watch the film online, read book extracts, and view dozens of materials on CIA rendition .
NEW: The agonising truth about extra-ordinary rendition - Salon.Com Nov 5, 2007 CIA rendition - the smoking gun cable - ABC News Nov 6, 2007
LATEST NEWS STORIES ON RENDITION - CIA investigates conduct of its inspector general (LATimes) - 12 October 2007 - Supreme Court Won't Review Alleged CIA Abduction (WPost) - 10 October, 2007 - Judge Halts Transfer of Guantánamo Detainee - 10 October
- President Bush's Comments on recent torture reports (White House) - 5 October, 2007 - Secret US Endorsement Of Severe Interrogations (New York Times) - 4 October, 2007 - Debate Erupts on Techniques Used by C.I.A. (New York Times) 5 October, 2007 - Senate passes bill after Democrats back down on PDBs, CIA jails - 5 October, 2007- Director's Statement on the CIA’s Terrorist Interrogation Program - German government drops demand to extradite el-Masri’s CIA ‘kidnappers’ (Spiegel English) - Secret Red Cross report condemns alleged torture in CIA black sites (New Yorker; Nat Hentoff the Village Voice) - CIA ran secret prisons for detainees in Europe, says inquiry - ACLU launches lawsuit against 'CIA travel agent', a Boeing subsidiary - US appeal court declares CIA rendition a state secret - CBS News - Italian court orders 35 to stand trial over CIA flights - CNN - Abducted Imam, Abu omar, released from Egyptian jail - Associated Press - Germany issues arrest warrants for 13 alleged members of CIA rendition team. New York Times - Maher Arar - apology and multi-million dollar compensation from Canada, but US won't budge - Globe and Mail - Italians seize ex-CIA chief's villa - AP report - CIA chiefs 'split' over Italian CIA rendition - Chicago Tribune - First letters home from "High Value" detainee transferred to Guantanamo - Washington Post - Pentagon releases rules for trials of terrorists - - Washington Post - European Parliament accuses governments of complicity - new draft report - download here - US seeks silence on CIA prisons - the Washington Post - Boeing firm accused of involvement in CIA rendition flights - the New Yorker more info - Vice President Cheney says dunking terror suspects heads under water is a 'no-brainer'; implies support for CIA water-boarding techniques. - News report - Key piece of Iraq war evidence obtained in Egyptian torture cell - and later withdrawn by CIA - AFP (report on Newsnight film)
* * * WEB EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of flight logs of suspected CIA planes posted here on the Internet for the first time Details View flight logs View timeline
WEB EXCLUSIVE: The rendition by the CIA of a German citizen that is still a 'state secret' - as told in documents View CBS News report on Khaled El Masri View exclusive documents
WEB EXCLUSIVE: "MY RENDITION" - ABU OMAR, THE MAN THE CIA ALLEGEDLY KIDNAPPED IN MILAN - HIS FULL STORY OF TORTURE - IN A DOCUMENT SMUGGLED OUT OF JAIL IN CAIRO.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Inside a CIA 'black site' - a prisoner describes the inside of one of the world's most secret jails.
"They said to me: ‘Welcome to your permanent home’" ... I had gone there without any reason, without any proof, without any accusation ...
Children of the Rendition Program
"Kidnapped to Order" Channel 4, UK, June, 11, 2007, 8pm Details Directed, filmed and produced by Dan Edge ; reporter Stephen Grey.
WELCOME Welcome to GhostPlane.Net, a website intended to provide further information and research to accompany the book Ghost Plane, which is a portrait of the CIA’s rendition program, as well as facilitate feedback.
Please click on the menu options for more information about the book, reviews, how to contact me and information on media contacts. An archive of my previous articles on rendition and other subjects is available at www.stephengrey.com.
Best wishes Stephen Grey
THANKS: * This website was developed with the help of Kim Stenbryggen and Tommy Kaas of the Danish International Center for Analytical Reporting. See www.dicar.org |
