1.   As bombing continued throughout the afternoon against Taliban targets all across the front line, alliance commanders who had criticized the American bombing as ineffective now praised it.

2.   A senior Yemeni official Thursday identified the operational director of the Cole bombing as Muhammad Omar al-Harazi, a Yemeni-born Saudi.

3.   But Fischer defended bombing as the only answer to what he called the evil of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

4.   He bombed as a leading man on the silver screen, so Don Johnson has come crawling back to his original launching pad, television.

5.   He cited effectiveness of law enforcement, high concentrations of youth, cultural factors and even bizarre outside influences such as the Oklahoma City bombing as factors skewing statistics.

6.   However, Cohen does not see the current bombing as a good example of parallel warfare.

7.   Instead, they said, it has shifted toward increased support for U.S. bombing as the best way to topple the Taliban.

8.   Such information could be used to argue that McVeigh might not have been as central a player in the Oklahoma City bombing as prosecutors asserted during his trial.

9.   Still, the government has described the trade center bombing as part of the overall terrorist conspiracy.

10.   That, analysts say, calls into question the effectiveness of bombing as the sole strategy to target a relatively small group of individuals.