Well, think about it. Many, if not most of the Commonwealth nations were not actually involved in the war even though they'd certainly have been effected.
My thoughts are that each country would do their best to get a team to the games, even if the teams were a fraction of the size they would have been. Imagine the propaganda and morale boost value!
Media coverage might not be all that great, at least there wouldn't be too much in the way of live TV coverage, but newsreels, newspaper photos and articles, radio broadcasts, etc of the events would be absolutely priceless!
With regard to the 1996 bombing, I feel that would still have occured as at that time NOBODY expected continental USA to be embroiled in conflict. At that stage is was still very much a USSR vs China event. Also don't forget that it wasn't really until 9/11 that security in the US was tightened to any significant degree (which from what we heard over here on the other side of the world, it nearly crippled the country in the initial few weeks). Now of course we all expect to be searched, have our nail files confiscated and foriegners singled out for "special treatment" - very different to a few years back.
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