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Pan view of Secretary of Defense William Cohen arriving in car at White House2. Cutaway of police officer3. Close-up Dept...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eMartha's Vineyard and Edgartown, Massachusetts; Washington, D-C, U-S-A - 20 August 1998 and File\u003cbr/\u003eWashington D.C.\u003cbr/\u003e1. Pan view of Secretary of Defense William Cohen arriving in car at White House\u003cbr/\u003e2. Cutaway of police officer\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close-up Dept of State aides getting out of cars\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close-up US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright walking into White House with Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Thomas Pickering\u003cbr/\u003e5. Still photograph of National Security Council meeting\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close-up view of President Clinton and Erskine Bowles\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pan view of National Security team\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close-up view of US Secretary of Defense William Cohen and US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hugh Shelton\u003cbr/\u003eAPTV - Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U-S-A - 20 August 1998 \u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid shot of U-S President Clinton \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, U-S President \u003cbr/\u003eAPTV File - Nairobi, Kenya - August 7, 1998 \u003cbr/\u003e11. Bomb aftermath in Nairobi\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up of man being dragged out of rubble\u003cbr/\u003eAPTV File - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania  - August 7, 1998 \u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of bombed US embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania  \u003cbr/\u003e14. Cars on fire at the scene of the blast\u003cbr/\u003eAPTV - Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U-S-A - 20 August 1998 \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, U-S President \u003cbr/\u003eAPTV File \u003cbr/\u003e16. Still of Osama bin Laden\u003cbr/\u003eAPTV - Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U-S-A - 20 August 1998 \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, U-S President \u003cbr/\u003e18. U-S President Clinton turns to leave the conference room and pull out to wide shot of room\u003cbr/\u003ePOOL - Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland,  - 20 August 1998\u003cbr/\u003e19. Military officials saluting Air Force One as it stops\u003cbr/\u003e20. Clinton getting out of Air Force One and leaving airfield\u003cbr/\u003e21. Nose of Marine One helicopter\u003cbr/\u003e22. Clinton boarding Marine One helicopter\u003cbr/\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eWashington has told the United Nations Security Council that U.S. air strikes complied with international law and a state's right to defend itself.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a letter to the council president, Ambassador Bill Richardson defended the military strikes, saying repeated threats by Osama Bin Laden's terrorist organization left\u003cbr/\u003ethe United States with 'no choice but to use armed force to prevent these attacks from continuing.'\u003cbr/\u003eAfter announcing the attack, Clinton cut short his family holiday to return to Washington, on Thursday where he immediately headed to briefings with his national security advisors at the White House.\u003cbr/\u003ePresident Bill Clinton had cut short what was supposed to be a quiet family holiday - much needed after the upheavals of recent days surrounding his sex scandal - to hold a surprise national security briefing.\u003cbr/\u003eDefence Chiefs and State Department Aides were called to the White House for the emergency meeting with Clinton, who ordered the air strikes.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was agreed that the air strikes on terrorist facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan complied with international law and the rights of states to self defence under the U.N. charter.\u003cbr/\u003eWashington passed that information onto the U-N Security Council.\u003cbr/\u003eEarlier in the day president Clinton announced he had given orders earlier in the day for a military strike against sites in Afghanistan and Sudan which are allegedly \"terrorist-related facilities.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to U-S intelligence, the groups based at the sites are believed to have links to the August 7 U-S embassy bombings in east Africa.\u003cbr/\u003eClinton said the action was taken because the terrorists posed a continued threat to U-S security and American citizens.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Good afternoon.  Today, I ordered our armed forces to strike at terrorist-related facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan because of the threat they present to our national security.  I have said many times that terrorism is one of the greatest dangers we face in this new global era.  We saw its twisted mentality at work last week in the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, which took the lives of innocent Americans and Africans and injured thousands more.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  Bill Clinton, U-S President\u003cbr/\u003eThe twin bombs which exploded outside the U-S embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed 257 people.\u003cbr/\u003eMore that five-thousand-500 people were injured in the attack, mostly Kenyans.\u003cbr/\u003eThe U-S response included action as well as words.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Today, we have struck back.  The United States launched an attack this morning on one of the most active terrorist bases in the world.  It is located in Afghanistan and operated by groups affiliated with Osama bin Laden - a network not sponsored by any state but as dangerous as any we face.  We also struck a chemical weapons-related facility in Sudan.  Our target was the terrorists' base of operation and infrastructure.  Our objective was to damage their capacity to strike at Americans and other innocent people.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  Bill Clinton, U-S President\u003cbr/\u003eThe terrorist facilities are believed to be the headquarters for groups with ties to Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden, the man U-S intelligence officials believe is behind the embassy bombings.\u003cbr/\u003eClinton said the strike should send a strong message to terrorists like bin Laden that the U-S will not be intimidated by such violence.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Terrorists must have no doubt that in the face of their threats, America will protect its citizens and will continue to lead the world's fight for peace, freedom and security.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  Bill Clinton, U-S President\u003cbr/\u003eTargeted were six training camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, which the U-S believed was being used to produce agents for chemical weapons.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 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