1.   American officials have been unwilling to call the attack a terrorist assault on their national interests.

2.   And one decision in particular seems especially inspired in the wake of the devastating terrorist assault on the United States.

3.   As with the first terrorist assaults, in New York and at the Pentagon, the government has been caught completely by surprise by the anthrax attacks.

4.   Beyond any threat from the air lies the possibility of terrorist assaults over land or from the river.

5.   Building a skyscraper with the strength required to withstand a similar terrorist assault will eat into an already tight profit margin.

6.   But a series of well-planned terrorist assaults, like the taking of the Japanese residence, in recent years has raised fears that the groups are resurfacing.

7.   But in the wake of the terrorist assault on the World Trade Center, that vision almost inevitably has taken on much darker tones.

8.   But like much of the political agenda in the wake of the terrorist assaults, the debate on immigration policy has shifted dramatically.

9.   But that was then and this is now, after the terrorist assault on Tuesday that changed and confused everything.

10.   But the urgency is driven more by a possibility of dangerous leaks than by a fear of terrorist assaults.