Clinton-Lewinsky scandal (January 17, 1998). Operation Infinite Reach (August 20, 1998). After the attacks, the U.S. evidence and rationale were criticized as faulty
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You must read the followings. The U.S. must take Monroe-Doctrine now! 0062名無しさん@1周年2019/10/14(月) 19:07:51.66ID:BlfOLrtR0 [Wikipedia] Operation Infinite Reach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infinite_Reach Operation Infinite Reach was the codename for American cruise missile strikes on al-Qaeda bases in Khost, Afghanistan, and the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 20, 1998. The attacks, launched by the U.S. Navy, were ordered by President Bill Clinton in retaliation for al-Qaeda's August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people (including 12 Americans) and injured over 4,000 others. Operation Infinite Reach was the first time the United States acknowledged a preemptive strike against a violent non-state actor.[15] U.S. intelligence suggested financial ties between the Al-Shifa plant and Osama bin Laden, and a soil sample collected from Al-Shifa allegedly contained a chemical used in VX nerve gas manufacturing. Suspecting that Al-Shifa was linked to, and producing chemical weapons for, bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network, the U.S. destroyed the facility with cruise missiles, killing or wounding 11 Sudanese. The strike on Al-Shifa proved controversial; after the attacks, the U.S. evidence and rationale were criticized as faulty, and academics Max Taylor and Mohamed Elbushra cite "a broad acceptance that this plant was not involved in the production of any chemical weapons."[16][b]
[Wikipedia] Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum North, Sudan, was constructed between 1992 and 1996 with components imported from Germany, India, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand and the United States. It was opened 12 July 1997.[1][2] The factory was destroyed in 1998 by a missile attack launched by the United States government, killing one employee and wounding eleven[citation needed]. The U.S. government alleged that the factory was used for the processing of VX nerve agent and that the owners of the plant had ties to the terrorist group al-Qaeda. These justifications for the bombing were disputed by the owners of the plant, the Sudanese government, and other governments. American officials later acknowledged "that the evidence that prompted President Clinton to order the missile strike on the Shifa plant was not as solid as first portrayed. Indeed, officials later said that there was no proof that the plant had been manufacturing or storing nerve gas, as initially suspected by the Americans, or had been linked to Osama bin Laden, who was a resident of Khartoum in the 1980s."[3] 0063名無しさん@1周年2019/10/14(月) 19:08:28.63ID:BlfOLrtR0 [Gurdian]Oct 2001 08.18 BST Strike one https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/02/afghanistan.terrorism3 In 1998, America destroyed Osama bin Laden's 'chemical weapons' factory in Sudan. It turned out that the factory made medicine. So how did the attack affect this war-ravaged nation? With the west poised to strike again elsewhere, James Astill reports from Khartoum
The first thing Amin Mohamed knew about America's last war on international terrorism was when the roof caved in. "It's the end of the world!" he screamed as 14 cruise missiles landed next door to the sweet factory he was guarding.
"The evidence was not conclusive and was not enough to justify an act of war," concedes Donald Petterson, former American ambassador to Sudan. The evidence was supposed to consist of incriminating soil samples; they have never been produced. Sudan's proposal that the UN should investigate was vetoed by America.
[New York Times]August 21, 1998 U.S. Cruise Missiles Strike Sudan and Afghan Targets Tied to Terrorist Network https://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/082198attack-us.html Dozens of U.S. cruise missiles struck targets in Afghanistan and the Sudan on Thursday in what President Clinton described as an act of self-defense against imminent terrorist plots and of retribution for the bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa two weeks ago. The targets were identified by Pentagon officials as an extensive terrorism training complex in Afghanistan, 94 miles south of Kabul, and a factory for the building blocks of chemical weapons near Khartoum, the Sudan. 0064名無しさん@1周年2019/10/14(月) 19:08:38.76ID:BlfOLrtR0 [BBC News]August 20, 1998 World: Africa Clinton defends military strikes http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/155252.stm President Clinton has defended his decision to order attacks against targets in Sudan and Afghanistan, but the countries concerned have reacted with anger. 0065名無しさん@1周年2019/10/14(月) 19:08:54.59ID:BlfOLrtR0 [Wikipedia] Clinton-Lewinsky scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton%E2%80%93Lewinsky_scandal The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was an American political sex scandal that involved 49-year-old President Bill Clinton and 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The sexual relationship took place between 1995 and 1997 and came to light in 1998. Clinton ended a televised speech with the statement that he "did not have sexual relations" with Lewinsky Further investigation led to charges of perjury and to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives. He was subsequently acquitted on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial.[ Clinton was held in civil contempt of court by Judge Susan Webber Wright for giving misleading testimony in the Paula Jones case regarding Lewinsky[2] and was also fined $90,000 by Wright.[ His license to practice law was suspended in Arkansas for five years; shortly thereafter, he was disbarred from presenting cases in front of the United States Supreme Court.[4]
Denial and subsequent admission News of the scandal first broke on January 17, 1998, on the Drudge Report,[22] which reported that Newsweek editors were sitting on a story by investigative reporter Michael Isikoff exposing the affair. 0066名無しさん@1周年2019/10/14(月) 19:08:58.81ID:RekzCO/b0 正確に言うと、トランプが国防総省に撤退の指示を出したところ
Quotes Ki11 J@ps, ki11 J@ps, ki11 more J@ps! Reported in James Bradley, Flyboys (2004), p. 138; Thomas Evans, Sea of Thunder (2006), p. 1; Paul Fussell, Wartime (1990), p. 119. 0068名無しさん@1周年2019/10/14(月) 19:09:45.62ID:BlfOLrtR0 Curtis LeMay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay LeMay is credited with designing and implementing an effective, but also controversial, systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II.
World War II In August 1944, LeMay transferred to the China-Burma-India theater and directed first the XX Bomber Command in China and then the XXI Bomber Command in the Pacific. LeMay was later placed in charge of all strategic air operations against the Japanese home islands.
LeMay finally switched to low-altitude nighttime incendiary attacks on Japanese targets, a tactic senior commanders had been advocating for some time. LeMay commanded subsequent B-29 Superfortress combat operations against Japan, including massive incendiary attacks on 67 Japanese cities and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This included the firebombing of Tokyo - known in official documents as the "Operation Meetinghouse" air raid on the night of March 9-10, 1945 - which proved to be the single most destructive bombing raid of the war.
Precise figures are not available, but the strategic bombing campaign against Japan, directed by LeMay between March 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August 1945, may have killed more than 500,000 Japanese civilians and left five million homeless. Presidents Roosevelt and Truman supported LeMay's strategy, referring to an estimate of one million Allied casualties if Japan had to be invaded. Japan had intentionally decentralized 90% of its war-related production into small subcontractor workshops in civilian districts, making remaining Japanese war industry largely immune to conventional precision bombing with high explosives. As the firebombing campaign took effect, Japanese war planners were forced to expend significant resources to relocate vital war industries to remote caves and mountain bunkers, reducing production of war materiel.
6 Post-military career 6.3 Honors He was also a recipient of the French Legion d'honneur and on December 7, 1964 the Japanese government conferred on him the First Order of Merit with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.