by Ken Adelman

About the author: Ken Adelman is a nationally syndicated columnist.

“Guilty!” the jury forewoman distinctly enunciated 38 times one Friday in early March 1994. Thus ended the trial of the four men accused of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which caused six deaths, hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, and our fright of a tough terrorist wave hitting America.

But this does not end Americans’ fear of terrorism erupting here, as it has erupted in Western Europe and most brutally in the Middle East and Latin America.

Rather, the verdict reinforces the now-accepted truth that “international terrorism has in fact reached the shores of the United States,” as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office in New York, William Gavin, said after the verdict was announced...