War on Terror’
The African Front
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12919281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Asim Qureshi (0000-0002-3793-8372, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-61 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Terrorism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9161 • E-ISSN: 1753-9153 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17539151003594202 |
| OpenAlex | W1997875336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
The establishment of the US Joint Task Force for the Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti at the end of 2002 heralded a strong intention that international terrorists would be sought in the east of the African continent. This paper has as its central focus first-hand investigation work carried out in Kenya in the aftermath of the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia at the end of 2006. It seeks to address the way in which the various countries in the Horn of Africa operated with one another in order to carry out a process of secret detention and rendition in a bid to keep suspects beyond the law. This paper examines the way in which men, women, and children were detained, questioned, and transferred to other countries with the complicity of various African states and the acquiescence and help of Western allies. Many of the processes that were implemented derived from measures already seen elsewhere in the world, including the use of detention without charge or access to legal recourse, the use of chicken wire fencing to house detainees as in Guantanamo Bay, and the application of the legal innovation ‘enemy combatant’ to those rendered. This paper shows that the conduct and practices of the United States in the War on Terror have been extended to the treatment of detainees in the Horn of Africa
Acquiescence · Adversary · Combatant · Complicity · Computer security · Criminology · French horn · International law · Political science · Sociology · Task force · Terrorism · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Public Administration · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2011 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |