Shadow Of Fear

As bombs fall on Afghanistan and bioterrorism rears its head at home, a nation nervously tries to gauge the threat

We can argue over when the enemy decided to wage war against us--was it the moment the Ottoman Empire fell or when U.S. troops arrived in Saudi Arabia? But we know exactly when we went to war with them: 12:30 p.m. E.T. on Sunday, Oct. 7. Now our pilots are shredding Afghanistan, and the waiting is over, and you didn't need to be in New York or Washington or Kabul to feel like a soldier--or a target. The clock becomes a time bomb: we were warned that retaliation is now certain; we wait, move to higher alert; time passes, tick, tick;...

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