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Operation Infinite Reach was a series of U.S. cruise missile strikes on August 20, 1998, targeting Al-Qaeda bases in Khost, Afghanistan, and a factory in Khartoum, Sudan. Following al-Qaeda's August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the cruise missiles destroyed the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory (ruins pictured) in Sudan as a suspected chemical weapons facility for the al-Qaeda network, but evidence produced in support of this rationale was widely criticized. The strikes on al-Qaeda's Afghan training camps, aimed at killing Osama bin Laden and preempting more attacks, damaged the installations and inflicted an uncertain number of casualties, but bin Laden was not present. According to U.S. analysts, the Taliban in Afghanistan had previously accepted money from Saudi Arabia on a promise to hand over bin Laden to them, but instead strengthened ties with him following the attacks. Further U.S. strikes were planned but not executed.

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Hi and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:43, 15 February 2020 (UTC)