Event

U.S. missile strikes, August 1998

U.S. cruise missiles fired at camps in Afghanistan and a plant in Sudan on 20 August 1998.

3 links, 3 backed by primary records

Connections 3

United States government Navy vessels fired cruise missiles Primary record 1
Taliban Mullah Omar said the strikes were counterproductive but he would be open to a dialogue on bin Laden Primary record 1
Taliban was warned it would be held responsible for attacks by the bin Laden network Primary record 1

Timeline 1 date

Proof 1 source

The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 9-11-commission, 22 Jul 2004. Primary record
Later on August 20, Navy vessels in the Arabian Sea fired their cruise missiles.
On August 22, the reclusive Mullah Omar told a working-level State Department official that the strikes were counterproductive but added that he would be open to a dialogue with the United States on Bin Ladin’s presence in Afghanistan.
The United States had issued a formal warning to the Taliban, and also to Sudan, that they would be held directly responsible for any attacks on Americans, wherever they occurred, carried out by the Bin Ladin network as long as they continued to provide sanctuary to it.

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