11.   His operations in Afghanistan were the targets of a U.S. cruise-missile attack, following the embassy attacks, that U.S. officials cast as a pre-emptive raid.

12.   In response to the embassy attacks, the United States bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum that Washington suspected of producing ingredients of a deadly nerve gas.

13.   In response to the embassy attacks, the United States launched dozens of cruise missiles at suspected bin Laden camps in Afghanistan.

14.   In the coming days, Beijing should resume discussions with Washington on the World Trade Organization and other important matters that it has frozen since the embassy attack.

15.   Likewise, he said, condemnation of the attacks in Israel should mirror the verdicts handed down last week to the four men convicted of the embassy attacks.

16.   Middle Eastern intelligence officials say they believe that an Egyptian radical and bin Laden lieutenant, named Mohammed Atef, helped coordinate the embassy attacks.

17.   Prosecutors may be moving closer to being able to show that he ordered the embassy attacks as well.

18.   Ten victims of the embassy attacks are expected to speak at the hearing Thursday at Old Federal Courthouse in Lower Manhattan.

19.   Still, prosecutors never introduced evidence directly showing that bin Laden ordered the embassy attacks.

20.   The first anniversary of the embassy attacks passed peacefully on Saturday.