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...But a facility producing desperately needed agricultural chemicals and veterinary medicines for a war-ravaged area was totally destroyed...
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...http://www.commonwealmagazine.org Bombs awry he United States has every legal and moral right to retaliate militarily against those responsible for terrorist attacks such as the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya (see, "The Bomb Next Door," page 10), and Dares Salaam, Tanzania, that killed more than 250 people...
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...But now a growing body of evidence suggests that, although bin Laden's connection to the embassy bombings justified the military strikes against his Afghanistan installations and forces, the destruction of the pharmaceutical factory was in all likelihood a hasty miscalculation based on unreliable intelligence...
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...cruise-missile attacks against the Afghanistan training camps of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and the A1-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, the Clinton administration claimed that it had compelling evidence linking bin Laden to the embassy bombings as well as to the Sudanese plant, which allegedly produced a rudimentary component for VX nerve gas...
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Vol. 125 • October 1998 • No. 17
