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DESCRIPTION:Torture Taxi uncovers the secret "extraordinary rendition" program the CIA 
 setup to shuttle suspected terrorists (some who have been vindicated as 
 innocent) around the world. One of the writers of Torture Taxi, AC 
 Thompson, will present the research that led to the publication of the 
 book.\n\nAbout Torture Taxi (published by Melville House, 2006):\n\n"We 
 don't kick the shit out of them. We send them to other countries so that 
 they can kick the shit out of them."-A U.S. official involved in CIA 
 renditions\n\nIt'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. It is called "extraordinary rendition," and it is 
 part of the largest U.S. clandestine operation since the end of the Cold 
 War.\n\n\nSome detainees have been taken to Egypt and Morocco to be 
 tortured and interrogated. Others have been transported to secret CIA-run 
 facilities in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan, where they, too, have been 
 tortured. Many of the kidnapped detainees have ended up at the U.S. 
 detention camp at Guantanamo, but others have been disappeared 
 entirely.\n\n\nIn this first book to systematically investigate 
 extraordinary rendition, an award-winning investigative journalist and a 
 "military geographer" explore the CIA program in a series of journeys that 
 takes them around the world. They travel to suburban Massachusetts to 
 profile a CIA front company that supplies the agency with airplanes; to 
 Smithfield, North Carolina, to meet pilots who fly CIA aircraft; to the San 
 Francisco suburbs to study with a "planespotter" who tracks the CIA's 
 movements; and to Afghanistan, where the authors visit the notorious "Salt 
 Pit" prison and meet released Afghan detainees.\n\n\nThey find that nearly 
 five years after 9/11, the kidnappings have not stopped. On the contrary, 
 the rendition program has been formalized, colluding with the military when 
 necessary, and constantly changing its cover to remain hidden from 
 sight.\n\n\nInterview with authors Thompson and Paglen on 
 Alternet:\n\n\n\nA.C. Thompson, winner of a 2005 George Polk Award, is a 
 staff writer at the S.F. Weekly.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/28/18333869.php
SUMMARY:SF: TORTURE TAXI: Presentation by AC Thompson
LOCATION:Station 40\n3030B 16th Street (@ Mission)\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/28/18333869.php
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