 Complete the following phrase:  In late September 1997, months after the Sudanese overture made by al-Bashir in the letter to Hamilton, the U.S. State Department, under Secretary of State Madeleine Albrights directive, first announced it would return American diplomats to Khartoum to pursue counterterrorism data in the Mukhabarats possession. Within days, the U.S. reversed that decision and imposed harsher and more comprehensive economic, trade, and ficial sanctions against the Sudan, which went into effect in October 1997. In August 1998, in the wake of the East Africa embassy bombings, the U.S. launched 