David Randall and Emily Gosden, ‘62,006 - the number killed in the war on terror’, Independent on Sunday (10 September 2006).
2.
In July 2010, the British government set up an inquiry, under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Gibson, into allegations of British complicity in the torture and abuse of terror suspects.
3.
For a further discussion on this issue, see Mark McGovern, ‘Countering terror or counterproductive? Comparing Irish and British Muslim experiences of counter-insurgency law and policy’ (Ormskirk, Edge Hill University, 2010).
4.
A reference to a Foreign Office representative’s advice to Shafiq Rasul and other detainees as they boarded a flight from Guantánamo to return to Britain.
5.
See Jeremy H. Keenan, ‘Africa unsecured? The role of the global war on terror (GWOT) in securing US imperial interests in Africa’ , Critical Studies on Terrorism (Vol. 3, no. 1, April 2010).
6.
In January 2011, Cageprisoners published the testimony of Umm Dawud, a female British resident who said that, in 2007, she was rendered from Kenya to Somalia and then eventually on to Ethiopia with the complicity of the British security agencies. See ‘Fabricating terrorism III: British complicity in renditions and torture’ (London, Cageprisoners, January 2011).
