Zhawar Kili is the site of a suspected Taliban or al Qaeda base that was bombed in 1998 and 2001.

Zhawar Kili is in Khost Province

Khost Province

Khost is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the country. Khost province used to be part of Paktia province in the past...

 suspected to have been an area where al Qaeda fighters regrouped after the bombardment of Tora Bora

Tora Bora

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American cruise missile

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s bombed a suspected al Qaeda site in Zhawar Kili in 1998 in retaliation for the bombing of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998

1998 United States embassy bombings

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Zhawar Kili was bombed again in November 2001. Richard A. Beck, a geologist at the University of Cincinnati

University of Cincinnati

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 informed the Department of Defense

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 that he could identify the rocks in a videotape Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

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released in October 2001 from a field trip he had made to Khowst.

The Department of Defense released video of the bombardment of Zhawar Kili in March 2002.