Mr. Bush, after days of focus in Washington on his administration's response to terrorism, spent the day defending his economic record after a period of recession and extolling homeownership as he traveled in the fast-growing states of Arizona and New Mexico.
And to make matters worse, the city that already had its heart torn out by terrorism spent much of the winter, with the rest of the nation, ramping up to war.
This is a problem constantly faced by those who seek to justify counter-terrorism spending.
This is based on a short downturn and includes the anti-terrorism spending and airline bail-outs.
Mike Penning, the Minister for Policing, said: "Counter-terrorism spending will be protected in the current Spending Review.
The Cabinet Office found £11bn in savings from the MoD, the security and intelligence agencies and counter-terrorism spending.
A healthy slug of America's anti-terrorism spending goes to forestall just such a possibility.Meanwhile a string of high-profile court cases involving terrorist conspiracies has served to increase the emotional chasm between Muslim Britons and their compatriots.
Asked whether ministers had approved the training programme, the Foreign Office said only that William Hague, the foreign secretary, and other ministers, had been briefed on counter-terrorism spending.
But a senior F.B.I. official said the bureau's final budget request, which had not been approved by the Department of Justice before Sept. 11, did contain substantial counter-terrorism spending.
If more vaccine were needed, it would take up to a year to produce: at present no manufacturing capacity exists.All this points to a serious gap in the country's preparedness to deal with a biological-weapons threat, despite the Clinton administration's efforts to increase anti-terrorism spending over the past two years.
