Cohen, by no means a war-crazed neocon, is ready for a blood purge, and a good chunk of the political class in this country and Western Europe is right behind him. The actual perpetrators of the horrific act of murder are soon to be forgotten as the hunt for the „enablers“ and „fellow travelers“ is taken up with glee. And the hunters will range far beyond their home terrain as „links“ are discovered in the far corners of the globe: indeed, with this act, the mysterious „al-Qaeda“ makes its reappearance in our collective nightmares. That amorphous ghost, which seems to be everywhere and nowhere, will be chased down from Toulouse to Timbuktu – and then on to Tehran, as the West gears up for a fresh rampage across the war-scarred Middle East.