"When the plane landed, they untied my blindfold. I found there
were women and children on one side and men on the other side of
the plane. They were saying, 'They are talking us to Mogadishu.'
The Kenyans who brought me there were still here. I was crying and
screaming and telling them to let me go as I had my passport and
that I was from Dubai and they should send me back. One man tried
to keep me quiet by saying, 'You are coming with us.' In total
there were twenty-two women and children. Apart from me and another
lady, everyone else was three to eight months pregnant."--2007
statement to Cageprisoners
Following the 2005 bombing of London's transportation
infrastructure, Tony Blair declared that "the rules of the game
have changed." Few anticipated the extent to which global
counterterrorism would circumvent cherished laws, but profiling,
incommunicado detention, rendition, and torture have become the
accepted protocols of national security. In this book, Asim Qureshi
travels to East Africa, Sudan, Pakistan, Bosnia, and the United
States to record the testimonies of victims caught in
counterterrorism's new game. Qureshi's exhaustive efforts reveal
the larger phenomenon that has changed the way governments view
justice. He focuses on the profiling of Muslims by security
services and concurrent mass arrests, detaining individuals without
filing charges, domestic detention policies in North America, and
the effect of Guant?namo on global perceptions of law and
imprisonment.
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