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