In 2008 Ibrahim Sharif, a British Citizen, was in Kenya. He had been in Kenya 2005 and 2006 without incident. However on Friday 8^th August 2008, after being picked up off the street, he was detained in Mombasa.

When I heard about this case, I became obsessed - I couldn’t stop talking about it. I wondered why at first, but then I realized: it exemplifies the extent to which the War on Terror – its tactics, its imagery, and its language – is embedded in the racist history of the United States. The Newburgh Four were an invented threat of strategic audacity. Their case could garner legitimacy, and make us fearful, because the FBI knew how to design a “terrorist menace” that not only invoked Islamophobia, but also a much broader arsenal of racist ideologies and signifiers.

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday released a partially redacted opinion ordering the release of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif for lack of evidence.