


In the event, of course, people took terrorist attack rather more personally than that, both in the moment and in dealing with the fall-out.

Nothing unusual then: in the years before 9/11, grand-scale civilian terror was a staple Hollywood pleasure ‘Die Hard With A Vengeance’ (1995) even showed Manhattan office workers munching popcorn as they survey the carnage below. So far the ‘Die Hard’ series has offered scenes of civil aviation hijack, skyscraper attack (with falling bodies) and a New York besieged by explosions.
