I received the following message form journalist and friend Stephen Grey, who spent the last five years researching extraordinary renditionsand tracking down “disappeared” Islamist suspects in the US-run global gulag…

FYI – some exclusive material posted today on www.ghostplane.net, the website of my book Ghost Plane, which is out now.For the first time, I’ve now posted on the Internet all available flight logs I have of the CIA’s alleged fleet of aircraft. Compiled from aviation sources it is a searchable database (by country, date, airport etc) that gives a portrait not only of renditions but wider CIA activity since September 11. Have also posted a timeline, including details of new renditions, that helps interpret what the flight logs show.
(See www.ghostplane.net/note and www.ghostplane.net/node/26, which describes some of the surprises )

Also posted today –
- A CIA rendition in documents – the aviation documents and Spanish records that show proof of the pilots and the companies responsible, including a private subsidiary of Boeing, for organising the rendition of Khaled el Masri, the German citizen, from Macedonia to Afghanistan. www.ghostplane.net/elmasri

- My rendition and torture – the story of Abu Omar, the Islamist kidnapped in Milan in February 2003 by the CIA, according to Italian prosecutors – his story in full as told in an account (translated from Arabic, original also posted) smuggled out of Egypt’s infamous Torah prison. His account of his interrogation is chilling. www.ghostplane.net/abuomar.