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...added that the first bomb was intended to kill bin Laden. The government had received intelligence that he would be at his camp meeting with advisers...
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh spoke to an audience of about 70 last night at Harvard Law School about the military attacks ordered by President Clinton in August on sites linked to alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden...
...August, the White House said the attacks were in retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which bin Laden was allegedly involved. The American bombs were dropped three days after Clinton's televised apology for his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky...
...director Louis Freeh was not consulted because it was believed that he was disloyal. Attorney General Janet Reno advised against the bombings because of weak links between bin Laden and the embassy bombings, Hersh said...
When U.S. embassies in Africa were car-bombed last August, Clinton sent the Tomahawks after the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. The U.S. Navy launched about 80 of them--at $750,000 each, that's some $60 million. What bang did Clinton get for his bucks? The missiles tore up some sheds and shacks at a training area in Afghanistan and demolished a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, which might or might not have been producing nerve-gas ingredients. The Tomahawks did not severely disrupt the bin Laden operation. But they gave the Administration the appearance of taking action...