Tengowski

1. • A. Iraqi Missile Attacks
– June 26, 1993-Iraqi HQ hit after alleged plot to
assassinate H. W. Bush
– September 3, 1996-Baghdad hit after Saddam
attacked Irbil (Kurdish city)-had UN Approval
– December 16, 1998-4 days of attacks by US & GB
• Operation Desert Fox-650 air strikes & 400 tomahawk
cruise missiles (more than Gulf War)
Military Action

2. • Operation Gothic Serpent
• Clinton-begins to remove troops after Restore Hope
• UN tried to bring political stability
– Clinton left 9,000 troops without Congressional approval
• June 1993-Aidid forces killed 24 UN peacekeepers
• October 1993-19 rangers killed & 84 wounded
– US Soldiers drug through Mogadishu-felt like JFK & Bay of Pigs
• April 1994-Presidential Directive 25 -left job for UN
• Rwanda-900,000 dead in 89 days-3x rate of Holocaust
– No action taken…troops sent if after massacres, Clinton promised never
to let it happen again…
– True Focus was on Somalia not Rwanda
Somalia & Rwanda

3. • Operation Infinite Reach
– Gives CIA approval to use lethal force to get Bin Laden
• Sudan-August 20, 1998-US fired cruise missiles
– Target-Pharmaceutical Plant-contained nerve gas?
– Retaliation for attacks on US Embassies
• Afghanistan-Attacks on Taliban/Al-Qaeda training
bases w/Cruise Missiles
– Retaliation for attacks on US Embassies
– Wag the Dog??? Distraction for Impeachment???
• 3 Days after Grand Jury Testimony about Monica
Sudan + Afghanistan

4. • Operation Allied Force
• March 24-June 10, 1999-Gen. Wesley Clark
– Milosevic continues ethnic cleansing of Albanians
(Serbs)
– NATO air strikes (30,000), 2 shot down, recovered
– Did not want another Bosnia!
• Clinton Doctrine-US military intervention will be
used to stop Genocide (Feb. 26, 1999)
– Reaction to Rwanda & Somalia,
Kosovo War