Operation Infinite Reach
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Operation Infinite Reach was the codename for American cruise missile strikes on al-Qaeda bases that were launched concurrently across two continents on 20 August 1998. Launched by the U.S. Navy, the
The U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, after the August 7, 1998, al-Qaeda bombing
The remains of the destroyed Al-Shifa facility
Excerpt from Mullah Omar's August 22, 1998, phone call with a U.S. diplomat
Bill Clinton
Mohamed Atta
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Mohamed Atta was an Egyptian engineer, architect, and the lead terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda on American Airlines Flight 11. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he was the ringleader of the September 11 a
Operation Infinite Reach
…to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in the region that Lewinsky was a Jewish agent influencing Clinton against aiding Palestine, which would influence Mohamed Atta to join al-Qaeda's Hamburg cell and commit the September 11 attacks. A Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa, was the target of a…
Atta in May 2001
Mohamed Atta (left) as a student in Germany, May 1993
The apartment Atta, Bahaji, and bin al-Shibh shared from 1998 until 2001 in Marienstrasse, Hamburg, Germany
Atta's U.S. visa (photocopies of some of the visa pages were found in Atta's luggage which wasn't loaded onto the plane)