His decision may rest on his calculation of how capitulation, or bombing, affects the strength of his own position.
But until now, except where South African or Portuguese armies were involved, wars have rarely involved one country sending troops into another, or bombing neighbours from the air.
Strassmeir denies all of this and says he was not involved with McVeigh or the bombing.
It is unclear whether he ever made any public statement concerning the bombing or assassinations.
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Third, Mr Bush may get allied support only on the brink of war, or even after bombing has started.
And we have so many signs of the intertwined world--the pictures being transmitted from Europe before the bombing or the leaders of the great industrial nations standing shoulder to shoulder.
Holder said a potential scenario might involve a president ordering such action "to protect the homeland" in a case like the 2001 al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington or the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.
About a dozen would-be spectators, including some relatives of bombing victims or survivors of the blast, lined up hours before the trial began, hoping to watch in person.
The MPs said many Nato political leaders had been "excessively optimistic" that the Yugoslav government would back down in the face of the threat of airstrikes or after a short bombing campaign.
Bagehot has lost count of the number of times Mr Blair and his ministers and generals have said gravely from Parliament or podium that the bombing campaign is being broadened, deepened, reinforced, accelerated, intensified and will simply continue until Mr Milosevic jolly well yields.
Nothing in the Bosnia agreement-in-principle deals with fighting in the Balkans or NATO's continued bombing of Bosnian Serb military targets.
"We had three or four trauma teams in different rooms set up and ready, " unsure of whether they would be treating a bombing suspect, injured police or bystanders, Schoenfeld said.
It is an international trend called yarn bombing, guerrilla knitting or urban knitting that has spread around the world in the last decade.
They saw themselves as the victims of atomic warfare, of their country having been, more or less, laid flat by bombing, and having to start again, and they saw themselves as, really, a pacific nation.
Derege Demissie, attorney for Mr. Phillipos, declined to comment beyond saying his client isn't accused of any conduct involving disposing of the backpack or any other offense related to the bombing.
But Fredericks guarantees that whoever "the guy" or the group of people responsible for the bombing may be, the FBI already has hundreds of images of them.
At least part of the investigation of Ms. Russell and other associates focuses on whether evidence related to the bombing investigation has been tampered with or destroyed, the officials said.
Between the World Trade Center bombing in, what was it, 1993 or so, and the next time was five years, seven years.
It was a curious business, having trains discharge passengers who were then forced to step around or over the sleeping forms, sheltering from the German bombing.
Others are running because of personal connections to Boston, because they felt the bombing was an attack on runners everywhere, or because they were moved by a particular story.
Although during the previous week the Quinns and the few other Catholics living nearby had been threatened and told to move out, a whispering campaign suggested other motives for the bombing: a paramilitary drugs dispute perhaps, or a family feud.
The United States has attempted to reduce those numbers by changing approaches to attacking targets, not bombing suspect cars as they approach crowded areas or waiving off an attack on a house if there are innocent civilians inside, according to U.S. military officials.
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But Cohen and Ammerman said they believe others still in Libya or former Gadhafi regime officials may also have been complicit in the bombing, and that U.S. and British officials should go into the country and conduct interviews in an effort to find them.
And they believe that two or three of the members of that council were directly involved in the bombing of U.S. embassies in east Africa about eight years ago.
Whether the error lay with the Central Intelligence Agency or the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, some American experts say the bombing is the result of an overly complex and outmoded intelligence bureaucracy.
Justice Department officials say the three witnesses will be allowed to provide background information on the Puerto Rican independence organization FALN, and its deadly bombing campaign in the United States, but not on the discussions or recommendations to grant clemency.
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The men suspected of the Omagh bombing rebuffed mobile phone evidence, claiming that their phones had been lost or borrowed.
Yarn bombing, also known as guerrilla knitting, is a type of street art or graffiti using items made from yarn - whether knitted, crocheted, or made into pom-poms.
The families hoped their actions would persuade more witnesses to overcome "loyalty or fear" and come forward to add crucial evidence to the criminal investigation of the bombing.
You also touch on what has become, in some people's minds, urban legend, in other people's minds that big question mark, as to whether or not - and we saw it historically - and you talk about the, quote, bombing of the levees, the opening up of the waters to save other areas in the city and pouring it in on the 9th Ward, the poor section of New Orleans.
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