The horrendous 9/11 attacks claimed 3000 lives and were followed by an unbounded American war—the ‘global war on terror’. On 12 September 2001, President Bush warned that it would not end until “every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated…” Vice President Cheney announced that they would have to work “on the dark side…” and “would not tie the hands of our intelligence communities”. The Bush administration decided to create secret offshore prisons to detain and torture Muslim men without legal or political oversight.