 Also, to stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by nationalist Serbians in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of U.S. Armed Forces in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force.The CIA was involved in the failed 1996 coup attempt against Saddam Hussein.In 1998, the U.S. became involved in major paramilitary efforts in Colombia (Plan Colombia) to eliminate drug trafficking.