Who would have imagined, before the September 11 attacks, that the foremost champions of human rights abuse and injustice would degenerate into advocates-and even practitioners-of torture? Yet imprisonment without charge or trial, the bizarre rendition of fugitives to their opponents, enforced disappearances, ghost prisons, waterboarding, humiliation, and inhumane treatment are all tools in the arsenal justified by the US-led, British-backed war on terror. What Asim Qureshi has detailed extensively in these pages is the extent to which the rules of this highly dangerous game have encompassed continents and the transformation they have wrought in societies, particularly those that once prided themselves on the fact that no human being was wronged on their soil. Muadhdhin Bagh Former Guantanamo detainee, author of Enemy Combatant and director of the nongovernmental organization Cage Prisons The Rules of the Game masterfully highlights aspects of the modern historical narrative that have long been ignored in the War on Terror research. Qureshi's survey of practices in multiple nations provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of the effects of international human rights violations worldwide on the Muslim diaspora. Importantly, the book offers the first-hand accounts of the effects these violations have had on not only Muslim men who survived these practices, but also on women whose husbands were forcibly disappeared, children whose fathers were unjustly detained, and fathers whose children were abused. Qureshi reminds us that international human rights are not just absolute principles; they are designed to be concrete safeguards, protecting individuals and communities from executive abuse. Gitanjal Gutierrez US Attorney for Guantanamo Detainees at the Center for Constitutional Rights The individual testimonies of Asim Qureshi are horrific, but when taken together, they paint a truly horrific global picture. Mahvej Rukhsana Khan Attorney for Guantanamo Detainees and Author of My Guantanamo Diary Obeikan Publishing