In their remarks to the meeting, the finance officials repeatedly called for tougher steps to choke off terror financing, pointing to the link between global security and economic prosperity.

CNN: Finance ministers urge vigilance

For instance, lorries crossing into Manhattan are now subject to stringent checks, and the local press is full of reports on "lockdown" plans which would seal off the island should intelligence suggest another terror attack is imminent.

BBC: Met chief learns NY terror lessons

White House lawyers were heading to a federal court Friday to ask a judge to hold off on looking into destroyed CIA videotapes of terror suspect interrogations.

NPR: Judge Weighs Legality of CIA Tapes' Destruction

The French responded with the usual mixture of bribes and terror: when an attempt to buy off the aristocratic class failed, they were sure that just getting tough enough one last time would do the trick.

NEWYORKER: Slaughterhouse

Joe Lieberman, an independent who has sometimes frustrated the White House, brushed off the notion that the president has gone soft on terror.

CNN: The return of terror politics

By the time of his death Mr Terre'Blanche, who once embodied the threat of a race war in South Africa, was a fringe ideologue, more of a figure of ridicule than of terror after serving a prison sentence for trying to murder a black security guard, and falling off his horse at a rally.

ECONOMIST: The ideas of a murdered racist leader are almost dead too