Counterterror surveillance operates identically at home and abroad

Evidence

This was how surveillance worked back home, in American cities and towns with concentrated Muslim populations. War on Terror surveillance, whether at home or far from it, was the same beast and left the same footprint. Wajir, Kenya, like Los Angeles or Detroit, was another theater of the War on Terror’s “field of fight,” where the new “world war” pursued terrorist boogeymen and -women near and far. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 124

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The same surveillance technology and logic operate at home and abroad — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 541; Surveillance technologies shuttle unchanged between foreign warzones and domestic Muslim communities; Surveillance techniques developed in overseas colonies were imported home against domestic dissenters — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 753