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Operation Infinite Reach: Retaliation Strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan

Operation Infinite Reach refers to the American cruise missile strikes on terrorist bases in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan in August 1998. It was carried out in response to the bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Learn more about the operation and its aftermath.

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Operation Infinite Reach: Retaliation Strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan

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  1. Operation Infinite Reach By Jake Spragg Buddy Longstreet

  2. What Was It • The August 1998 bombings of Afghanistan and Sudan codenamedOperation 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 Tanzania which killed 224 people (including 12 Americans) and injured 5,000 others.

  3. Who Was Involved • Bill Clinton • Brock Obama • Secretary of State John Kerry • McDonald • he Chairman of El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries  

  4. Satellite image showing an al-Qaeda training camp in Zhawar Kili

  5. A pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, destroyed during Operation Infinite Reach.

  6. 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

  7. 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. • .

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

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