21.   It was, after all, Japanese Admiral Osami Nagano who planned and ordered the attack.

22.   Khazraji has denied responsibility, saying Hussein and a cousin ordered the attack.

23.   Leung and others say they do not know who ordered the attack, although few suspect that it was linked to politics.

24.   Preliminary work was speeding ahead when the guru, seemingly impatient for genocide, ordered an anthrax attack, Japanese officials said.

25.   President Clinton said that evidence provided the justification he needed to order the attacks.

26.   Reno said she ordered the attack after being advised that Koresh or his lieutenants might fire on cult members or order a mass suicide within the next two weeks.

27.   President Clinton ordered those attacks in response to al-Qaida bombing the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, attacks which killed several hundred people.

28.   Solomon said Clinton could have ordered attacks against Iraq many times since February after confrontations with the regime over weapons violations, but chose not to.

29.   Some counterterrorism experts said the president had no choice but to order the attacks.

30.   That night, he boarded Air Force One for flight to Washington and ordered the attack.