Our Target Was Terror
Later, in the Arabian Sea, five U.S. warships–four surface vessels and a submarine–fired a barrage of 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles at suspected terrorist camps in Afghanistan. In the Red Sea, two other warships fired 20 cruise missiles at a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan that was thought to be making an ingredient for the deadly VX nerve agent. The operation went off perfectly, the missiles slamming into their Afghan and Sudanese targets at almost the same moment....