Terrorism, the Worker and the City

Chapter 1Working in the Theatre of Terrorism

As things fell apart nobody paid much attention

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Introduction: Ground Zero

On 11 September 2001 witnesses throughout the world watched as commercial passenger airliners were crashed into each of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington DC and the ground in Pennsylvania. These attacks sparked a startling chain of events. After ‘9/11’ witnesses worldwide watched as the US government deployed their military muscle – supported symbolically and militarily by the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing’ – in Afghanistan and then later in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed as a consequence of the responses of the ‘willing’ governments ...