With President Bush describing the perpetrators of September 11 as ‘people who know no borders’ (link), it should come as no surprise that the terrorist threat was portrayed as global in reach; geopolitically limitless.
This capacity to transgress borders allowed the terrorist subject to ‘activate a sense of the unknown and project an uncontrollable and overwhelming power which threatens not only the loss of sanity, honour, property or social standing but the very order which supports and is regulated by the coherence of those terms’ (link).
