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Byline: PETER BENESH
On Sept. 11, America paid a high price for complacency. It will now pay with vigilance.
Despite the quick U.S. military success in Afghanistan, the al-Qaida network survives in as many as 60 countries.
Osama bin Laden's attack should not have been such a surprise. One of his apostles led a conspiracy to bring down the World Trade Center with a truck bomb in 1993.
In 1995 and 1996, bin Laden's agents used truck bombs to kill U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. In 1998, al-Qaida truck bombs blew up two U.S. embassies in Africa.
In 1999, a jumpy al-Qaida agent flubbed a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport. Bin Laden agents bombed the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.
President Clinton OK'd bin Laden's assassination and tried to kill him with cruise missiles.