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President Clinton not only ordered precautions to protect Bush but asked about options for a reprisal against Iraq.
The existing mechanisms for handling terrorist acts had been trial and punishment for acts committed by individuals; sanction, reprisal, deterrence, or war for acts by hostile governments.
Making no reference to the United States or to the possibility that the attack might have been a reprisal for U.S. missile attacks in Sudan and Afghanistan, it blamed terrorists who "want our communities to remain divided."
Few passages in the Constitution have been more abused than Article 1, Section 8.11, which gives Congress sole power "to declare war [and] grant letters of marque and reprisal."
When Cretan partisans kidnapped General Kreipe, head of the occupying forces on the island, the Germans unleashed a terrible reprisal here.