After 10 years of war with al-Qaida, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said yesterday it’s not over and even though Osama BIn Laden has been take out of the picture. He says, the potential for another devastating terrorist assault “remains very real,” Those comments came after a visit to ground zero at the World Trade Center. Panetta also visited the Shanksville, Pennsylvania site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed, after passengers revolted and stormed the cockpit thwarting the hijackers plot to crash the 757 in Washington.

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