The twin operations on the African coast underscored the evolving geography of the terror threat away from its Middle East and South Asian epicenters.
The contorted body of a man is stretched out, writhing in pain (or terror), inches away from doctors sipping coffees and eating sandwiches, just off London's Euston Road.
The dead were pitifully dead in the Brady pictures; in the Saint-Gaudens sculpture in Boston, they were alive again, and wreathed in glory, the sadness and the terror drained away into the bronze itself.
In fact, months ago a senior adviser to Mr. Bush predicted that should a terrorist attack occur in Europe, it would probably drive the Europeans closer to the United States and its approach to the campaign against terror, not away from it.
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The game ends after you make your way back through the same house you navigated at the start, all its terrors stripped away, passing countless objects that have played a part in your story thus far, knowing that the only horror waits ahead of you - and then it allows a redemptive moment.
Jon Daly headed just wide as full-time approached, but United were not to be denied, and, as the match entered stoppage time the Terrors broke away on the right and Stuart Armstrong's low cross was side footed home by Gary Mackay-Steven.
My nightmares and night terrors went away.
Further complicating the prospects for central control, the police who once instilled terror have melted away.
