missile strike

Documents: US strike aided bin Laden-Taliban ties (AP)

Ytop stories  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 8:12pm

AP - The U.S. cruise missile strike on an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan in 1998 was meant to kill Osama bin Laden.

But he apparently left shortly before the missiles struck, and newly declassified U.S. documents suggest the attack cemented an alliance with his Taliban protectors.