COD: attack suddenly. They 'd struck on the very first day .The death and destruction wrought by the cyclone which struck Bangladesh on 29 April was tragically compounded by the total breakdown of the country 's communication system .The phoney financiers have struck at least four times so far in Coventry , stealing three-figure sums .When the ` official " Famine struck the Volga , the Soviet press made no mention of the position in the Ukraine .It stated that ` Detectives believe the attacks are linked and fear the sex fiend could strike again " .The Pentagon had been struck ; the White House or the Capitol had narrowly escaped direct attack .He knew he would soon be striking the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan .They struck three days after we arrived , without warning , at least to us .Indeed , it is not clear to us that the video teleconference was fully under way before 9:37 , when the Pentagon was struck .He was ready to strike at `` the head of the snake . ''The Vice Chairman was on Capitol Hill when the Pentagon was struck , and he saw smoke as his car made its way back to the building .Our enemy is twofold : al Qaeda , a stateless network of terrorists that struck us on 9/11 ; and a radical ideological movement in the Islamic world , inspired in part by al Qaeda , which has spawned terrorist groups and violence across the globe .By the early hours of the morning of August 20 , President Clinton and all his principal advisers had agreed to strike Bin Ladin camps in Afghanistan near Khowst , as well as hitting al Shifa .Time 's superior package emphasizes U.S. hopes that Iraq 's military will strike first .This week , two days after Arafat and Israel 's new prime minister , Ehud Barak , signed another deal , terrorists struck again .India would never be the first to strike , and it would retaliate only against a nuclear power that had used nuclear weapons against it .Sharif was cordial but disagreed with the U.S. decision to strike .Desire to possess the capability to strike directly at Israel and US military facilities within South Asia .In 1982 , as the war dragged on into its second year , Iraqi operations entered a new phase in which it expanded the use of FROG-7As strikes and the first employment ( three attacks in 1982 ) of the Scud-B short - range ballistic missile ( SRBM ) to strike at the Iranian strategic rear .Shaped by a fanatical worldview , the terrorists sought to kill as many Americans as possible while striking at symbolic targets of U.S. economic and military power .But Slocombe worried that simply striking some of these available targets did not add up to an effective strategy .The President wanted the United States to strike the Taliban , step back , wait to see if they got the message , and hit them hard if they did not .After the election , Holbrooke wrote a memo to Warren Christopher and Anthony Lake advocating the strategy known as `` lift and strike '' -- lifting the arms embargo that prevented the Muslims from defending themselves , and bombing the Bosnian Serbs .The top national story at the Los Angeles Times is the emerging pressure on the Clinton administration to not just strike against Saddam Hussein , but remove him .