jun 26, 1993 - 1993 cruise missile strikes on Iraq
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The cruise missiles strike on Iraq in June 1993 were ordered by U.S. president Bill Clinton as both a retaliation and a warning triggered by the attempted assassination of his predecessor George H. W. Bush by alleged Iraqi intelligence agents while on a visit to Kuwait from April 14th to 16th, 1993.On June 27th, 1993, 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched by a cruiser and a destroyer of the U.S. Navy into downtown Baghdad. These hit a building which was believed to be the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service in the Mansour district of Baghdad. Iraq claimed that nine civilians were killed in the attack and three civilian houses destroyed.
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Date:
jun 26, 1993
Now
~ 32 years ago