| Black Holes, White Holes and Worm Holes: Pre‑emptive Detention in the ‘War on Terror’ (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| Chapter 9 of "Fresh Perspectives on the ‘War on Terror’". This chapter explores the use of detention as a response to terrorism in the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK) and Australia. I have chosen to focus on these three countries because it is clear that Australia has taken some leads from the US and UK in this area as a result of its close connections with them. The three countries have obvious cultural connections and they were all members of the ‘coalition of the willing’ that invaded Iraq in 2003. It is apparent that detention has become a favoured preventative measure in the ‘fight against terror’ in all three countries, and that the rules that would generally govern and constrain detention have altered dramatically. Indeed, the rules are so different, subject to so many ongoing changes, and based on such flimsy rationales that they lack legitimacy. | |||||||||||||||
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