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August 20, 1998
President Clinton orders missile attacks on sites in Afghanistan and Sudan in retaliation for bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. U.S. officials blamed bin Laden's terrorist network for those attacks, which killed 257 people. The strikes targeted a bin Laden-linked pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, and compounds in Afghanistan, where U.S. intelligence suggested bin Laden may have been living and leaders of his organization were to meet. A Taliban official reported 21 killed in Afghanistan. Bin Laden survives.