Whether or not bin Laden was involved in planning these attacks has not been established. With of his followers, bin Laden returned to Afghanistan, which was then falling under the control of the Taliban, a faction of extreme Islamic fundamentalists.
Bin Laden provided funding for the Taliban military campaign against the city of Kabul, which fell to the militia in September Soon after his arrival in Afghanistan, bin Laden issued a fatwah, or religious decree, calling for war on Americans in the Persian Gulf and the overthrow of the Saudi government. In February , he issued another fatwah stating that Muslims should kill Americans, including civilians, anywhere in the world.
On August 7, —the eighth anniversary of the deployment of U. The attack at the Nairobi embassy, which was located in a busy downtown area, caused the greater devastation and loss of life. There, a truck loaded with 2, pounds of TNT forced its way to the back entrance of the embassy and was detonated, shattering the embassy, demolishing the nearby Ufundi Coop House, and gutting the story Cooperative Bank.
By the time rescue operations came to an end, people were dead, including 12 Americans. Thousands of people were wounded, and hundreds were maimed or blinded.
The attack against the U. By , American intelligence officers knew that bin Laden operatives were active in East Africa but were unable to break up the terrorist cell before the embassies were attacked. They had even heard of a possible plot to bomb the U. Meanwhile, Prudence Bushnell, the U. Few, however, voiced concern that the proliferation of terrorists eager to kill innocent civilians and themselves in order to strike a blow against the U. Within days of the August 7 bombings, two bin Laden associates were arrested and charged with the attacks.
However, with bin Laden and other key suspects still at large, President Clinton ordered a retaliatory military strike on August In Afghanistan, some 70 American cruise missiles hit three alleged bin Laden training camps.
An estimated 24 people were killed, but bin Laden was not present. Thirteen cruise missiles hit a pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan, and the night watchman was killed.
The United States later backed away from its contention that the pharmaceutical plant was making or distributing chemical weapons for al Qaeda. In November , the United States indicted bin Laden and 21 others, charging them with bombing the two U. To date, nine of the al Qaeda members named in the indictments have been captured; six are in the United States, and three are in Britain fighting extradition to the United States. In February , four of the suspects went on trial in New York on criminal counts stemming from the embassy attacks.
On May 29, all four were convicted on all counts. But why did this happen all of a sudden despite the fact that Sanaa has been under Houthi control for the last seven years? The recent incident is also more likely related to some local issues in Sanaa, Hamdi says. In recent weeks, there have been some backdoor negotiations between the Houthis and the Saudis.
The Yemeni group appears unhappy about some conditions placed on them to ensure peace in the war-torn country, Hamdi says. While the P5 heads urged the need for a political solution, they also reiterated their support for the UN-recognised Yemeni government, with which the Houthis have fought since the beginning of the civil war.
While the Houthis might stop targeting Saudi territory, for them, quitting Marib is highly unlikely. The Houthis, which continue to advance across the country against Saudi-led forces, are also happy about the fact that the international attention is on Riyadh, seeing it as an opportunity to seize more territories, according to Hamdi. There has been no real political statement from Washington until now in regard to the Houthi storming of the US embassy.
But Republicans were not happy about it. Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican lawmaker, compared the Houthi storming of the US embassy to previous incidents against American missions.
All incidents, Crenshaw referred to, happened under the watch of a Democratic president. Iran, a Shia-majority country, has backed the Houthis during the civil war. But they are not necessarily an entity that follows the orders of Iran. Timeline August 8. August September
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