At Malaprop’s in Asheville, author Hendricks to talk about his book detailing CIA’s use of kidnapping against terror suspects

Jason Sandford

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Press release here:

What: “The CIA Uncloaked”

When: 7pm Thursday, October 14, 2010

Where: Malaprops Bookstore & Cafe, 55 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC

Author Steve Hendricks will speak at 7 pm on Thursday evening, October 14, at Malaprops Bookstore & Cafe in downtown Asheville. The subject of his talk as well as his new book, A Kidnapping in Milan, is the use of kidnapping or “rendition,” torture and indefinite detention by U.S. government officials against terror suspects. 

A Kidnapping in Milan tells the story of the CIA’s rendition in 2003 of a radical imam from Milan to Cairo, of the imam’s torture in Egypt, and of one Italian magistrate’s struggle to put the CIA’s kidnappers on trial. In an advance review, The Chicago Tribune has called the book “[a] real-life thriller [with] many well-drawn characters . . . skillfully crafted, highly disturbing.”

“The barbarisms of America’s ‘War on Terror’ appalled me, as did reporters who went along with the barbarisms,” Hendricks wrote. “I was particularly taken aback by the Bush (and now Obama) claims that torture-by-proxy makes us stronger. I wrote A Kidnapping in Milan because few reporters have shown what torture really looked like, because the Italian magistrate who was prosecuting the CIA kidnappers was a charismatic figure, and because I wanted to see if he would succeed in his struggle against American lawlessness.”

The WNC Chapter of the ACLU of NC is co-sponsoring the local talk. For more information about Hendricks and his work, please visit http://www.stevehendricks.org/.