Resources

A list in-progress of articles, reports, books, multimedia, and organizations dealing with civil and human rights abuses in domestic “war on terror” cases. To suggest additions, email noseparatejustice@gmail.com.

1. Surveillance and Entrapment

Articles

NYPD must ditch discriminatory Muslim surveillance for its own good by Faiza Patel // Al Jazeera America, October 2013
Did the NYPD Entrap Ahmed Ferhani? by John Knefel // The Nation, March 2013
New York City Terrorism Sting Latest In Line of ‘Entrapment’ Cases by Seth Freed Wessler // Colorlines, October 2012
How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’ – and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook by Rick Perlstein // Rolling Stone, May 2012
The ex-FBI informant with a change of heart: ‘There is no real hunt. It’s fixed’ by Paul Harris // The Guardian, March 2012
Aviva Stahl interviews Alicia McWilliams, the aunt of David Williams of the Newburgh Four // CagePrisoners, December 2011
The Informants by Trevor Aaronson // Mother Jones, September/October 2011 Issue
AP’s Probe Into NYPD Intelligence Operations // AP, beginning August 2011
Entrapment perfected: the many ways we’ve failed to see the Newburgh Four through the lens of racial (in)justice by Aviva Stahl (under pseudonym) // CagePrisoners, March 2011
Were the Newburgh 4 Really Out to Blow Up Synagogues? A Defendant Finally Speaks Out by Graham Rayman // The Village Voice, March 2011
Not Just Guantanamo by Bill Quigley//Huffington Post, April 3 2010.

Reports and fact-sheets

Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and its Impact on American Muslims // MACLC, CLEAR and AALDEF, March 2013
Targeted & Entrapped: Manufacturing the homegrown threat in the US // CHR&GJ at NYU, May 2011

Books

The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson // Ig Publishing, January 2013
Rounded Up: Artificial Terrorists and Muslim Entrapment After 9/11 by Shamshad Ahmad // January 2009

Film and radio

The Convert: Transcript // This American Life, August 2012
Presumed Guilty: American Muslims and Arabs // Making Contact, March 2011
Entrapment or Foiling Terror? FBI’s Reliance on Paid Informants Raises Questions about Validity of Terrorism Cases // Democracy Now, October 2010
Waiting for Mercy: The case against Yassin Aref & Mohammed Hossain // by Ellie Bernstein, December 2008

Organizations and Campaigns

2. Conditions of Confinement

Articles

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Defender of the Constitution by Andrew Cohen // The Atlantic, November 12 2013
How Mohammed Warsame Became an Accidental ‘Terrorist’ by David Thomas // The Nation, November 27 2013
This is counterterrorism?: The shocking story of Mahdi Hashi by Falguni A Sheth // Salon, September 25, 2013
Judicial Ignorance and Bias in the Case of Ahmed Abu Ali by Jeffrey Kaye//Counterpunch June 10 2013.
Court Documents Prove I Was Sent to Communication Management Units (CMU) for my Political Speech by Daniel McGowan // Huffington Post, April 1 2013
The impossible injustice of Talha Ahsan’s extradition and detention by Ian Patel // The New Statesman, 21 February 2013
A Human Rights Court Gives Torture the Green Light by Jeanne Theoharis and Saskia Sassen // The Nation, September 26 2012
Solitary confinement is no place for a poet by AL Kennedy // The Guardian, 9 May 2012
The guard told me ‘you are nothing like the Muslims prisoners’. He was wrong by Andy Stephanian // Mondoweiss, April 7 2012
‘Little Gitmo’ by Christopher Stewart // NYMag, July 10 2011
Gitmo in the Heartland by Alia Malek // The Nation, March 10 2011
My Brother Faces a Lifetime of Solitary Confinement on a Spurious Terror Conviction by Mariam Abu-Ali // AlterNet, May 11 2010
One Day We’ll All be Terrorists by Chris Hedges//Truthdig, December 28 2009

Reports and fact-sheets

Communication Management Units: The Federal Prison System’s Experiment in Social Isolation // CCR, March 2011

Books

Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror— Victoria Brittain

Film and radio

Extradition // by Turab Shah, April 2012
Guantanamo North: Inside Secretive US Prisons by Carrie Johnson and Margot Williams // NPR, March 03 2011

Organizations and Campaigns

3. Fair Trial and Due Process Concerns

Articles

“The Harrowing Tale of Ahmed Abu Ali” by Esam Al-Amin // CounterPunch, June 28-30, 2013
Preferring Order to Justice by Laura Rovner and Jeanne Theoharis // American University Law Review, Volume 61 Issue 5 (June 2012)
39 Ways to Limit Free Speech by David Cole// New York Review of Books blog, April 19 2012.
America’s ‘detainee 001’ – the persecution of John Walker Lindh by Frank Lindh // The Guardian, 9 July 2011
My Student, the ‘Terrorist’ by Jeanne Theoharis // The Chronicle Review, April 3 2011
The Legal Black Hole in Lower Manhattan by Jeanne Theoharis // Slate, April 27 2010
Innocent by Tom Junod // Esquire, February 15 2010
Department of Pre-Crime by Eric Umansky// Mother Jones, February 29 2008.