The war-on-terror framing rationalizes outsourcing torture to allied regimes

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The US frames alliances with Egyptian dictators as terrorism-war pacts to justify outsourcing torture — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 42; Outsourcing torture to proxy nations displaced moral responsibility for it.; Governments obscure torture by outsourcing it to proxy torturers with euphemistic names — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2403 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• European states helped the US detain and outsource-torture suspects #exemplifies (0.92) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 590