During the NATO intervention into Libya in 2011, the FBI drew up lists of Libyan residents in the United States to be interviewed—demonstrating again the links between domestic counterterrorism in the United States and military interventions abroad. When the United States goes to war against a foreign enemy, it inevitably makes war on the perceived enemy within, which includes not only members of particular ethnic or national groups but also dissenters of all races.

XREF: Connects to broader literature on counterterrorism impacting civil liberties, and historical patterns like FBI surveillance during the Vietnam era.

Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politi…, loc. 491