Thursday, August 20, 1998 Published at 22:02 GMT 23:02 UK
Clinton defends military strikes
US MIlitary photograph of the Zhawar Kili camp targeted in the air strike
Mr Clinton said that there was "compelling evidence that further attacks were planned by a network of Islamist terrorists."
"Our target was terror, our motive was clear," he said.
US Navy vessels in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea are believed to have launched Tomahawk cruise missiles.
In Sudan, reports say that seven were injured in the air strike.
Within hours of the attack at 1730GMT (1330EDT) on Thursday, the Taleban authorities in Afghanistan said that the US missiles had missed their target.
The Taleban said it was organising a big anti-US protest in the city of Kandahar.
Two officials from the UN have been shot and wounded in the Afghan capital, Kabul. One of them is said to be in a serious condition.
Shortly after the raid in Khartoum, mass protests began outside the empty US embassy there.
The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was concerned about the attacks, but UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Israeli counterpart, Binyamin Netanyahu, supported Mr Clinton.
The US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, has asked other nations to support the US stand.
Reaction in the US itself was split between politicians backing the president and those suggesting that the timing might have been related to Mr Clinton's continuing problems in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Bin Laden blamed
In his address, Mr Clinton named exiled Saudi Arabian dissident Osama bin Laden as the mastermind behind the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
"There is convincing information from our intelligence community that bin Laden's terrorist network was responsible for these (embassy) bombings," Mr Clinton said.
Speaking in Washington after the attacks, the US Defence Secretary William Cohen denied that the strikes had been aimed at assassinating Mr bin Laden.
Sudanese Interior Minister, Abdul Rahim, said that the target in Khartoum had been the private Shifa pharmaceutical plant which had nothing to do with chemical weapons.
He added that Sudan had no chemical weapons factories.
Mr bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire dissident, spoke to the BBC by satellite phone one hour before the attack, denying involvement in the embassy bombings.
However, he said he would continue his war against the Americans and the Jews until the liberation of the Islamic holy places.
What do you think of this action by the US?
Please include details of your name and country.