An interesting and provocative take on the war against terrorism.
On September 12th, 2001, I attended work as usual at the offices of the National Rail Enquiry Service to find a note on my desk. It was a badly photocopied memo with the heading of the British Transport Police, and in it the police admitted that they didn’t know where or when the next security threat was going to come from. The previous day there had been several terrorist attacks in America, and the whole world was in shock. What was going to happen next.
A few days later I received a phone-call from a man who claimed that an acquaintance of his had taken a gun onto a train. I thought back to a previous time when Britain had been under threat from terrorism, and remembered that we had been old to keep the person talking as long as possible in the hope of getting some clues as to…
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