article_snippet.sent: The attack killed 168 men, women and children, injured hundreds more, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
article_snippet.sent: The attack's aftermath saw a storm of media coverage with themes such as "attack on the heartland" and America's "lost innocence.
article_snippet.sent: In fact, the bombing took America by surprise.
article_snippet.sent: the bombing wasn't simply the scale of the tragedy that drew attention, but the fact that the bombing exposed something new: American citizens targeting American citizens own government with a deadliness hitherto unseen.
article_snippet.sent: The September 11, 2001, terror attacks -- attacks of a scale and ferocity that dwarfed even that of the Oklahoma City bombing -- commanded the full attention of the nation.  
article_snippet.sent: Certainly, the 9/11 attacks warranted great attention.