The terrorist assault was still going on as he spoke, but the news was already overwhelming.
The deadliest terrorist assault in the nation's history has left Americans feeling vulnerable and unambiguously patriotic.
Some of those leaders also said the terrorist assault represented a colossal failure of American intelligence.
The absence of another terrorist assault on American soil, says Bush, is legacy enough.
He declined to characterize the incident as a terrorist assault on United States interests.
It has since been accepted that the attack on the consulate was a terrorist assault.
One of the program artists, the Jamaican-born sculptor Michael Richards, had died in the terrorist assault.
Indeed, security officials have been braced for a major terrorist assault on London, and the capital was on a high state of alert over the Christmas period.
He left Paris in the hours after the attacks, shortly after his brother had blown himself up as part of the terrorist assault.
But in the wake of the terrorist assault on the World Trade Center, that vision almost inevitably has taken on much darker tones.
The surprise attack was not the terrorist assault on the World Trade Center in Sept. 11, 2001, but the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
