FROM SHADOW BOXING TO GHOST PLANE

Arguably the finest example of investigative journalism during the ‘war on terror’ has been the exposure of the Central Intelligence Agency’s ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme. Probing journalists, whose researches were encapsulated in British journalist Stephen Grey’s book Ghost Plane in 2006, have painstakingly identified over 1000 CIA ‘ghost flights’ criss-crossing the globe since 2001.2 Many of these flights were for ‘extraordinary rendition’ where terror suspects were secretly, without the suspect’s agreement, taken by force from one country to another and in some cases kidnapped.