” ‘Our target was terror,’ President [Bill] Clinton said in disclosing a near-simultaneous cruise missile attack against targets near Khost [Afghanistan] and in Khartoum, Sudan [on August 20, 1998]. Bin Laden had launched a ‘terrorist war’ against the United States, Clinton said, and ‘our mission was clear: to strike at the network of radical groups affiliated with and fronted by Osama bin Laden, perhaps the preeminent organizer and financier of international terrorism in the world today.’ “
– Roy Gutman, How We Missed the Story, Page 143