Target serangan itu termasuk pemimpin jaringan Al-Qaeda untuk Afrika Timur dan seorang mata-mata Al-Qaeda yang diduga terlibat dalam pemboman kedutaan besar AS di Kenya dan Tanzania tahun 1998.
The targets of the raids included the senior Al-Qaeda leader in East Africa and an Al-Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.