Or on muffing the gathering threat from Osama bin Laden four years ago?

The expansion of the trade presents a gathering threat to the new democratic government and a severe challenge to the American and international forces here.

First, the lesson of Sept. 11 is when this nation sees a threat, a gathering threat, we've got to deal with it.

In Iraq, we dealt with a gathering threat, and removed the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Regardless, we would do well to re-awaken ourselves to what may be a formidable gathering threat.

This was not a shadowy presence in a luxury box, a clipped voice on the telephone or a gathering threat from afar.

Rubenstein said the statements indicated support, not a gathering threat.

The Foreign Office has been typically slow to recognise the gathering threat, despite repeated warnings.

Iraq was seen more as a gathering threat.

But I see a gathering threat.