Former CIA official Michael Scheuer, last heard from (in book form) in 2004's Imperial Hubris, has a new volume out -- Marching Towards Hell: America and Islam After Iraq.

The NYT's Michiko Kakutani doesn't much like the new tome.

Khaled Abdu Ahmed Saleh al-Maqtari, a 31-year-old Yemeni national, talked to Amnesty International about the more than 32 months he spent in the shadows of the CIA's black prison sites.