Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights
- ISBN-10
- 1840468300
- ISBN-13
- 9781840468304
- Category
- Extradition
- Pages
- 212
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Icon Books Company
- Authors
- Trevor Paglen, A. C. Thompson
Description
A story of how the CIA's darkest secret of the War on Terror - the 'extraordinary rendition' programme - was exposed. This work takes a look at the logistics of torture which shows how far Bush is prepared to go in the 'war on terror'.
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