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DESCRIPTION:A.C. THOMPSON,\n\nAward-winning investigative reporter and co-author of 
 Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, speaking 
 on\n\n"EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION: KIDNAPPING, AMERICAN STYLE"\n \nHow the CIA 
 kidnapped more than 100 people and sent them to secret prisons around the 
 world where they are detained and often tortured.\n\n* With a special 
 appearance by members of Iraq Veterans Against the War.\n \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\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\nIn this special 
 event, investigative reporter A.C. Thompson, co-author of the new book, 
 Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, will offer a 
 detailed look at kidnapping, American style. \n \nA.C. Thompson, winner of 
 a 2005 George Polk Award, is a staff writer at the S.F. Weekly.  He is the 
 co-author (with Trevor Paglen) of Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's 
 Rendition Flights (Melville House).  A two-time winner of the National 
 Council on Crime and Delinquency’s PASS Award for crime reporting, he is 
 twice the recipient of the Western Publication Association’s Maggie 
 Award.  He teaches investigative reporting at the New College Media Studies 
 MA Program.\n \nTorture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights 
 \nhttp://www.mhpbooks.com/tt.html\n \nThis event is FREE.\n \nSponsored by 
 New College Media Studies MA Program 
 \nhttp://www.newcollege.edu/media_studies/ \n \nFor more information about 
 the event contact: Jon Garfield, 415-437-3425 or jon@newcollege.edu \n \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/11/18336637.php
SUMMARY:Investigative Reporter AC Thompson: "Extraordinary Rendition: Kidnapping, American Style"
LOCATION:New College of California, Cultural Center, 766 Valencia St., San 
 Francisco\n \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/11/18336637.php
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