> some things, like terrorism, loomed much larger then than they do today I'm not sure about that. The article is from 1997, after the 1993 attack on the World

> some things, like terrorism, loomed much larger then than they do today I'm not sure about that. The article is from 1997, after the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, but before the bombing of the USS Cole (2000) or, especially, the destruction of the World Trade Center and the partial destruction of the U.S. Pentagon (2001).