The EU has already decided to freeze the accounts of those suspected of links with Osama Bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect for the attacks, and it has moved fast to close legal loopholes by agreeing on a common definition of terrorism.

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"It was a lithe, whippy thing that moved very fast as it hunted different kinds of prey, " said Mr Hutt.

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"It's not that the judgment was wrong, but it moved too far too fast, " Ginsburg said at Columbia University last year.

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