European states helped the US detain and outsource-torture suspects

Evidence

European security and police forces often aided and abetted the United States in using secret and indefinite detentions to battle terrorism. We have evidence of law enforcement agents throughout Europe arresting and detaining suspects, often Muslim men, and then turning them over to US custody without judicial process. Some suspects became victims of extraordinary rendition, the process by which they were transferred from US custody to countries or locations where they encountered the possibility of torture. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 590

Categorization

  • XREF: Extends the book’s thesis that Islamophobia is a Western-wide phenomenon, not a US-only one; pairs with the Sweden rendition case that follows. — connects to: The United States offered other nations a template of propaganda and punishment to emulate; Rendition sent over a hundred detainees to torturing states

Broader Connections