The proof of this will be when lots of Bahraini money comes back to Bahrain. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see where this is going. We've already got 5,000 companies. Clinton hits Taliban with sanctions President Bill Clinton imposed sanctions on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in a bid to flush out suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. The move freezes most Taliban assets in the United States, as well as blocking imports and exports between the two countries.
Humanitarian supplies are exempt.
Washington accuses Bin Laden of carrying out bomb attacks on the Kenya and Tanzania US embassies in August 1998, in which 250 people were killed. The United States launched retaliatory missile attacks on Bin Laden's hideaway in the Afghan mountains, and at suspected weapons factories in Sudan. But Bin Laden survived the attacks and remains at large, with his whereabouts a mystery since the Taliban reported him missing in February. Washington believes the government may still be harbouring the exiled Saudi Arabian national. Dubai-based shippers say US sanctions are therefore unlikely to affect already limited trade.