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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.
In retaliation, the US government launched a trade embargo in 1960 against Cuba that continues to this day.
The new proposal would set strict conditions under which the West would lift the economic embargo and foreign companies would be allowed to bid on contracts to rebuild "the country's shattered oil industry."
Working with Russia (a country involved in an ongoing campaign against Chechen separatists, some of whom received support from Bin Ladin), the United States persuaded the United Nations to adopt Security Council Resolution 1333, which included an embargo on arms shipments to the Taliban, in December 2000.
Bakri has pledged global war against the United States "until every American soldier has been withdrawn from Saudi Arabia and the whole Persian Gulf and until the embargo which is starving the Muslim people of Iraq has been lifted."