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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In April 2009, 12 men were arrested by the North-West Counter-Terrorism Unit on suspicion of participating in terrorism-related offences and plotting a major attack in North West England. Within 13 days of their arrest after no evidence was found against them, the charges were dropped, but 10 of them, all Pakistani nationals, remained in detention charged with violating their immigration status, and one of the students, Abid Naseer, has been called for extradition to the United States. This article presents the case of the North West Ten as an exemplar of the War on Terror on Britain's shores, exploring the territorial inscriptions of colonising power as they play out in the metropole. It highlights the importance of rooting analyses concerning the treatment of Muslim subjects in the War on Terror within (post)colonial and imperial racial governmentalities.
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