Will many of them actually be driven to following the Israeli anti-terrorist model and create safe rooms of plastic-sheathed insulation against germ warfare?
Baudrillard perceived that the terrorists hope that the system will overreact in response to the multiple challenges of terrorism: "It is the terrorist model to bring about an excess of reality, and have the system collapse beneath that excess".
"It is the terrorist model," he wrote, "to bring about an excess of reality, and have the system collapse beneath that excess".
At first it was assumed that where there is radicalisation, there is a network, but in recent years the FBI has been proposing the "lone wolf" terrorist model to explain the apparent absence of such networks in some cases.
So I think he has taken the business model and very fruitfully applied it to the terrorist enterprise.
"I think that's a very possible and very dangerous business model, and you have to prevent narco-businessmen crossing those streams with the terrorists," Admiral Stavridis said.
Once the world's most wanted terrorist, and the model for several fictional international criminals, Ramirez spent two decades on the run, sought for masterminding bombings, assassinations and kidnappings dating to the early 1970s.
Even "Glamorama"'s later chapters, in which Ward falls in with a group of models turned terrorists, resonated for Leitch, who said there are similarities between models and terrorists.
Over 15 years and 11 novels, Chuck Palahniuk has put his characters through hell; the famously conflicted office worker in his debut Fight Club was followed by suicides, terrorists, possessed artists, disfigured models and disturbed porn stars.
His terrorist apparatus, modeled on Stalin's, has tortured, imprisoned and killed hundreds of thousands.
He was physically assaulted while lecturing at the university of Tokyo after publication of Seventeen (1961), a novella whose teenage terrorist was modelled on the far-right youth assassin of Japan's socialist party chairman in 1960.
