Ahmed Abu Khattala, on the other hand, was among the taken. The aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks created an entirely new realm of jurisprudence over questions of detention and interrogation not just on land but also on the high seas. Abu Khattala’s was one of those national security cases: he was not shanghaied by human traffickers like the migrant deckhands I met in Thailand and Borneo. Abu Khattala was abducted and whisked away to sea by American soldiers.
