1993 cruise missile strikes on Iraq

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Iraq was attacked with cruise missiles by the United States in June 1993. The strikes 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 14–16 April 1993. On June 27, 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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