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‘War on terror’: How 9/11 changed the language of conflict | Human Rights News

Torture became “enhanced interrogation”. Suspects were seized and removed across borders through “extraordinary rendition”. Detainees held at Guantanamo Bay were designated “enemy combatants”, while deadly attacks were described as “surgical” or “targeted” strikes. In the years after the September 11 attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center, a whole new vocabulary of war, laced…

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