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Al-Qaeda planned to attack USS The Sullivans on January 3, 2000, but the effort failed due to too much weight being put on the small boat meant to bomb the ship. Despite the setback with USS The Sullivans, al-Qaeda succeeded in bombing a U.S. Navy warship in October 2000 with the USS Cole bombing, killing 17 sailors.
Experts debate the notion that the al-Qaeda attacks were an indirect consequence of the American CIA's Operation Cyclone program to help the Afghan mujahideen. Robin Cook, British Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001, wrote in 2005 that al-Qaeda and bin Laden were "a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies", and claimed that "Al-Qaida, literally 'the database', was ...
Al-Qaeda United States Canada: Defeat Operation Jacana (April, 2002–July, 2002) Taliban Al-Qaeda United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Norway: Defeat Battle of Wana (March 16–23, 2004) al-Qaeda Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: State of Pakistan: Defeat First Battle of Fallujah (4 April – 1 May 2004) al-Qaeda. Jama'at al-Tawhid wal ...
The escapees, most notably Nasir al-Wuhayshi and Qasim al-Raymi, would rebuild al-Qaeda's presence in Yemen under the name of AQLY. Though the groups first attack , a pair of coordinated suicide car bombings on two Yemeni oil facilities in September 2006, would end up failing, AQLY would prove to be more resilient and appealable to locals than ...
It was not until after 220 people died in al Qaeda bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 that Clinton responded with cruise missile strikes. Those failed to stop bin ...
Al-Qaeda is a way of working ... but this has the hallmark of that approach ... Al-Qaeda clearly has the ability to provide training ... to provide expertise ... and I think that is what has occurred here." [160] On August 13, 2005, The Independent newspaper, reported that the July 7 bombers had acted independently of an al-Qaeda mastermind. [161]
With the aim of cornering al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants Operation Mountain Sweep: 18 August 2002: 28 August 2002: Mainly around Dormat and Narizah, south of Khowst and Gardez: Was designed to search out al-Qaeda and Taliban forces and information about the terrorist organizations Operation Mountain Thrust: 15 May 2006: 31 July 2006
After the September 11 attacks in the United States, U.S. President George W. Bush demanded the Taliban government to hand over al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden and close all terrorist training camps in the country, which the Taliban refuses the following day for lack of evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11 attacks. [25] 7 October