Mission Objective
Secretary of Defense, Les Aspin, stated in an interview with the Washington Post, June 27, 1993, the following:
- "What we're doing is sending a message against the people who were responsible for planning this operation. . . . {If} anybody asks the same people to do it again, they will remember this message."
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