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Stephen Grey is a 39-year-old journalist based in London UK, writing mainly about national security issues. A former editor of the Sunday Times' investigations unit, the Insight Team, he continues to contribute to the Sunday Times, as well contributing recently to the New York Times, Guardian, Times, Independent, Newsweek, the Atlantic Monthly. In Britain, he has reported for Channel 4 Television's "Dispatches", BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio Four and World Service. His book on the CIA rendition programme, Ghost Plane, was published in October 2006. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1968, Stephen was educated at the British School of Brussels, St Alban's School, Windsor Boys' School, and Oxford University (where he studied politics, philosophy and economics). Beginning his journalism on the Eastern Daily Press, a regional paper in Norfolk, UK, he worked for a succession of papers, including the Daily Express, before becoming home affairs correspondent of the Sunday Times. He was then for the Sunday Times successively South Asia Correspondent (covering India and Pakistan, and Afghanistan under the Taliban), Europe Correspondent (where he worked on investigations that exposed corruption in the European Commission, as well as covering the Kosovo War) and Insight Editor (where after 9/11 he ran investigations into Al Qaeda and events leading up to 9/11). As a freelance since 2003, he has also reported extensively for the Sunday Times in Iraq. In the summer of 2003, Stephen began investigating reports of the CIA's secret system of renditions (transfer of terror suspects to foreign jails, where many faced torture). In May 2004 in the New Statesman and then in November 2004 in the Sunday Times, he broke the world exclusive story of the flight logs and secret fleet of aircraft used by the CIA for rendition. Since then, Stephen has contributed several front page news articles to the New York Times about rendition and security issues, as well contributed on the subject to Newsweek, CBS 60 Minutes, Le Monde Diplomatique, BBC Radio 4 'File on Four'. Continuing his coverage of Iraq, in February 2004, Stephen broadcast a two-part series on Radio Four and BBC World Service on the British in Iraq, called 'Desert Rats Diary'. In 2007, Ghost Plane was awarded the Overseas Press Club of America's Joe and Laurie Dine award for best international reporting on human rights in any medium. The judges said: “Stephen Grey’s “Ghost Plane” is the consummation of years of investigation, not only by the author, but, as he acknowledges, the informal global network of journalists with whom he collaborated to reveal the murky world of rendition, extraordinary rendition and proxy torture. By tracing the landings and takeoffs of clumsily concealed CIA flights, his work not only demonstrates concerned investigative journalism in action, it lifts the lid on a global gulag of prisons and torture chambers, assembled by US officials in defiance of domestic and international human rights law. It caused a furore in Europe, and should here.”
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