Operation Infinite Reach

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Operation Infinite Reach
By Jake Spragg
Buddy Longstreet
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What Was It

• The August 1998 bombings of Afghanistan and Sudan
  codenamed Operation Infinite Reach by the United
  States) were American cruise missile strikes
  on terrorist bases in Afghanistan and a
  pharmaceutical factory in Sudan on August 20,
  1998. The attack was in retaliation for
  the bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Ta
  nzania which killed 224 people (including 12
  Americans) and injured 5,000 others.

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Who Was Involved

• Bill Clinton
• Brock Obama
• Secretary of State John Kerry
• McDonald
• he Chairman of El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries
   

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Satellite image showing an al-Qaeda training camp
in Zhawar Kili
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A pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, destroyed
during Operation Infinite Reach.
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Things You Might Want To Know

• According to Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid,
  20 Afghans, seven Pakistanis, three Yemenis,
  two Egyptians, one Saudi and one Turk were
  killed. Abu Jandal later estimated that only six
  men had been killed in the strikes. The only
  confirmed death in the strikes was
  Egyptian-Canadian Amr Hamed. Osama bin Laden
  jokingly told militants at the al-Jihad merger
  that only a few camels and chickens had died

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General Joseph Ralston, the Vice-Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff who was chosen to inform
the Pakistanis of the missile strike against Bin
Laden.

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• http//www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pak
  istan/8488225/How-Osama-bin-Laden-the-worlds-most-
  wanted-man-eluded-US-during-10-year-manhunt.html