... what came to be known the world over as ground zero is still far below its pre-"nine-eleven" standards. It was then, long before the smoke had cleared, in the wide wake of what otherwise would have been a pleasant early autumn Tuesday morning that President George W. Bush declared a "war on terrorism of global reach." The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), as it was officially labelled was designed to maintain parameters and a nature that are defined broadly and vaguely providing for the utmost leeway in execution, and therefore to it the attribution of all success, a theoretically fail-safe political asset. The elements of this design have been a subject of much domestic as well as international controversy. The very use of the word war in this context is contested as the actions of the US government in the name of the GWOT are far too broad to fit ...

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