Posted on 12/31/2005 2:48:27 AM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy. Alexandria: Nov/Dec 2005.Vol.33, Iss. 11/12; pg. 3, 1 pgs
Highly-placed NATO sources have confirmed the reason behind the US air strike - with three Tomahawk cruise missiles - against the Embassy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Belgrade, (then) Yugoslavia, on May 7, 1999. The then-Clinton Government of the United States said at the time that the strike was accidental, due to faulty maps and intelligence, but this has been disproven by the NATO sources.
The NATO sources told Defense & Foreign Affairs that the attack was based on intelligence that then Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic was to have been in the Embassy at the time of the attack. The attack, then, was deliberately planned as a "decapitation" attack, intended to kill Milosevic.
The London Observer, on October 19, 1999, had said that the attack had been deliberate, noting: "... Politiken newspaper in Denmark and Ed Vulliamy cites senior military and intelligence sources in Europe and the US stating that the embassy was bombed after its NATO electronic intelligence (ELINT) discovered it was being used to transmit Yugoslav army communications.
"Supportive evidence is provided by three other NATO officers - a flight controller operating in Naples, an intelligence officer monitoring Yugoslav radio traffic from Macedonia and a senior headquarters officer in Brussels.
"All three say they knew in April that the Chinese embassy was acting as a "rebro" (rebroadcast) station for the Yugoslav army. The embassy was also suspected of monitoring NATO's cruise missile attacks on Belgrade, with a view to developing effective countermeasures."
The Clinton Administration blamed the attack on inaccurate intelligence information provided by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), alleging that the three missiles, which landed in one corner of the PRC embassy block, had been meant to target the Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement (FDSP). US Defence secretary William Cohen said at the time: "One of our planes attacked the wrong target because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map." Sources within the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency reacted with anger at the allegation that their mapping had been at fault.
Moreover, it was clear that Clinton appointee George Tenet, the CIA Director at the time, was involved in the deception operation built around the failed assassination attack.
There was widespread disbelief of the US Clinton Administration claim that the attack was "accidental", but no accurate background information as to why the attack against the Embassy was scheduled. The rationale cited by The Observer was not the true cause of the targeting.
In July 1999, then-CIA Director Tenet testified in Congress that out of the 900 targets struck by NATO during the three-month bombing campaign, only one was developed by the CIA: the PRC Embassy.
No, Wild willy Wonka did not even know about the strike - he still thinks it was an accident - I mean who relly knows what the meaning of Is Is????
Agreed...the USAF still does not like to talk about that.
Not too long ago, maybe 6 months, I was told by someone who was connected to the hit that it was no mistake. The subject came up out of the blue and I think the guy simply wanted to get it off his chest. It was a strange day.
. . . which is an instant replay of the FBI Filegate denuement: If hiring Craig Livingstone was a mistake, why was no one blamed for hiring him? Why was Livingstone's dismissal announced in the passive voice? Livingstone "was fired" - but nobody got the credit for firing him because that would imply responsibility for hiring him!!
"Former President Clinton never gets any tough questions from the news media on his hair-brained attacks (e.g. on the Chinese Embassy, Waco)."
The libs crack me up when they call Bush "a cowboy". From 98-99 Clinton bombed Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and China! He only had AUMF for Bosnia.
According to him, "mistake" is something never to be associated with him. In his usage, "Mistakes were made" - never "I made a mistake."
Bush will also. All the Presidents get the nobel peace prize eventually.
So Clinton authorized an act of war against a non belligerent sovereign state! I'm sure we'll hear no more about it.
I don't give a damn if the trigger was "locked". There had to be a better way. No one can tell me different.
While Elian's life in Cuba "WITH HIS FATHER" may not be comparable to US life, it had to be better than what is etched in this kid's head for the rest of his life. Please...it's only an opinion.
Hey! Mugabe of Zimbabwe is in the chinese embassy in Harare! Lets do it again and kill 2 birds with one stone! (satire)
What's funny is, that he took out the Sudanese Al Shifa pharmaceutical plant due to intel which claimed it was being used by Iraqi scientists to make WMD for Bin Laden. This was after he turned down Sudan's offer to give the US Bin Laden on a platter.
I for one would like an explanation of this.
Gotta be a lie.
#1 - Clinton doesn't have the guts to attack anything or anybody that might hit back.
#2 - Clinton was good friends with the Chinese.
Either that, or Clinton was being his incompetent self and he ok'd the bombing without even knowing what the target was. Not too unusual considering his penchant for bombing empty enemy camps and civilian factories.
>>Bush will also. All the Presidents get the nobel peace prize eventually.
They do?
Only three Presidents have ever won the Peace Prize: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmah Carter.
I don't buy this for a second. A re-write to dig the Clinton name up from the hole it's in on national defense. If this was true where's the liberal outrage ?? Weren't some Chicom's human rights violated here ??
That all depends on the target. Not all cruise missiles are single warhead, some are cluster bomb carriers and can drop hundreds of bomblets across a field, or two or three bomblets across a runway...
Albright replied: "I don't know". Well, that explains it!!
They must be our friends. Look at all of the merchandise that Americans buy from them.
Except Milosevik has nothing to do with OUR National Security and I believe it is illegal to "hit" a National Leader and I'd guess also illegal to hit an Embassy given their Protected Status.....Not that that stops terrorists.
Given the amount of campaign cash the Klintoons got from the chicoms, I'd say it's more likely they dropped these in place for reverse engineering purposes.
Fanciful reporting. Ermmm one major error. The strike was conducted by B-2s using JDAMs.
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