"It just went on and on and I saw more and more of the scale of this bomb," he said.
Jordanian and American officials said the scale of the bombing plot compared to Al Qaeda's foiled attempt to mount attacks on Jordanian tourist sites over the millennium celebrations.
No thoughtful American general, much less any political leader, really believes that deterrence depends on the scale of nuclear bombing with which Russia and the United States now threaten each other.
The Luftwaffe attacked St Paul's in no uncertain terms in 1940, but that was a physical assault and, thank God (Protestant, Catholic or otherwise) did precious little harm considering the scale of the bombing during the blitz.
The data, collected from a nuclear missile detection system that picks up large blasts on earth, shows that since 2001, asteroids have caused 26 explosions on the scale of an atomic bomb.
The weather has smoothed the jagged edges, and children now play among the rubble, but the horror and scale of the carpet bombing that demolished this ancient walled town of 2,500 homes remains vivid.
Experts inside and outside governments say the knowledge for carrying out attacks, even on the scale of the weekend bombing in Bali, is widely available through the Internet and CD-ROM's.
If some bunch of political extremists were to produce an atrocity on the scale of the Oklahoma bombing in Stuttgart or Milan, European opinion might not be so averse to executions.Let America's friends see Mr McVeigh's end not with scorn and exasperation, but with recognition that America's ways, and their own, are not so very far apart.
This likely reflects the smaller scale of the 2003 Jakarta bombing as opposed to the three bombs detonated in the 2002 Bali bombing.
But its regional affiliates still pose a "destabilizing and disruptive" threat on the scale of potentially driving "a truck bomb into an embassy wall," he said.
