Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence

Scott Poynting is Professor of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-author of, among other books, Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other (Sydney Institute of Criminology, 2004) and Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime (Pluto Press, 2000). David Whyte is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is co-author of Safety Crimes (Willan, 2007), co-editor of Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful (Peter Lang, 2003) and author of State, Crime, Power (Sage, 2009).

• Introduction 1. Counterterrorism as Counterinsurgency in the UK ‘War on Terror’ 2. Shoot-To-Kill Counter-Suicide Terrorism: Anatomy of Undemocratic Policing 3. British Counter-insurgency Practice in Northern Ireland in the 1970s – A Legitimate Response or State Terror? 4. Masters of Terror 5. The Great Game 6. One More Successful War? Tamil Diaspora and Counter-Terrorism after the LTTE 7. ‘No permission to shoot in Gaza is necessary’: Israeli State Terror against Palestinians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead 8. Untouchable Compradores? Colombian State Narco-Terrorism and the People’s Struggle for National Liberation 9. The Criminalisation of Anti-Colonial Struggle in Puerto Rico 10.‘War on Terror’ and Spanish State Violence Against Basque Political Dissent 11. Indonesian State Terror in Timor-Leste and West Papua 12. Al Qaeda in the West, for the West

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