Quote from the link: In the 10 years between the last known use of these manuals in the early 1990s and the arrest of Al Qaeda suspects since September 2001, torture was maintained as a US intelligence practice by delivering suspects to foreign agencies, including the Philippine National Police, who broke a bomb plot in 1995.


Author:

"Alfred W. McCoy, a professor in the History Department, has spent the past quarter-century studying modern Southeast Asian history. In his writing about the region, he has focused on two topics--modern Philippines history and the politics of opium in the Golden Triangle. He is the author of several books on Philippine history, two of which have won that country's National Book Award--Philippine Cartoons (Manila, 1985) and Anarchy of Families (Manila, 1994). Recently, he has completed a book manuscript titled Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy (New Haven, forthcoming, 1999), examining the impact of torture and authoritarian rule upon the country's officer corps. "