On August 7, 1998 U.S. embassies in East Africa were bombed. At 10:30 a.m. local time, a truck bomb exploded outside the embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. A few minutes later, another bomb exploded outside the US embassy in the capital of Tanzania.
The terrorist attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, wounding more than 4,500. The United States assigned responsibility to Saudi exile Osama bin Laden and on August 20, President Bill Clinton ordered cruise missiles launched against al Qaeda terrorist training camps. Also hit was pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, where bin Laden was reported to have made and distributed chemical weapons from.
The media reported that the factory manufactured aspirin or something like that. Conservative Americans were disappointed with the antiseptic approach to retribution. Liberal Americans railed against the innocent civilians that were collateral damage. Both groups were probably correct, what we do know now is that the retaliatory strikes did not kill or deter the enemy. Three years later al Qaeda killed thousands at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania.
The terrorist attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, wounding more than 4,500. The United States assigned responsibility to Saudi exile Osama bin Laden and on August 20, President Bill Clinton ordered cruise missiles launched against al Qaeda terrorist training camps. Also hit was pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, where bin Laden was reported to have made and distributed chemical weapons from.
The media reported that the factory manufactured aspirin or something like that. Conservative Americans were disappointed with the antiseptic approach to retribution. Liberal Americans railed against the innocent civilians that were collateral damage. Both groups were probably correct, what we do know now is that the retaliatory strikes did not kill or deter the enemy. Three years later al Qaeda killed thousands at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania.
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