In wake of the bombing of American embassies in Africa, Clinton ordered missile strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan.
In response to the mentioned events, on August 20, 1998, Operation Infinite Reach was carried out, through a missile attack from an United States Navy cruiser to an Al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan, and the destruction of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, following suspicions that chemical weapons were produced at the Al Shifa plant and controlled by the Arab terrorist Osama bin Laden.