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Cohen said at the time: "One of our planes attacked the wrong target because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map."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.
The horrible Waco murders occurred because Hillary was tired of watching the drama drag out on TV and told Reno to 'take care of it'. (Oddly, she's never taken credit where credit was due. The WH travel agency firings....Billy Dale, et al., Foster's 'suicide', the FBI files. The list is endless.) Well, that's Hill for you. Ms. Modesty, herself.
Oh, I would put Ruby Ridge right up there with Waco. A dog, a Mother holding a child...
Lon Horiuchi, the assassin gets a promotion.
Blam: Good question, I don't know...but I think you're getting at the heart of the issue.
The FBI had a huge party when they had they got the unabomber. The bad news is that if they had put out the bit about the unabombers "carving abilities", they might have found him a lot sooner. While there are a lot of "wood carvers", two dots might have nailed this guy.
Repeat after me; China is not our friend, China is not our friend..........
You got it
The basic point is that Defense & Foreign Affairs has a proven track record of horrid BS news articles. They actually believed in all those claimed NATO losses in both manpower and manned aircraft. If they cannot even get the basic facts correct then all their 'un-named NATO sources' hyperbole can be taken with a pinch of salt.
A strike was conducted on Milo's home during April 1999.
I always heard it was because the Chicoms had developed a way to track the Stealth and were doing so from the the Embassy..
Wes Clarke was relieved of command 'cause that perfume 4 star good ole wesley was attempting to start WW3. A Brit commander was the one who stopped him. Immediately, wesley was recalled by the chairman of the joint chief
...LOL...
2. Clinton bombing the Chi-coms after he gave them half our secrets? I do not buy it!
3. The easiest answer is usually the correct one - somebody screwed up.
I hope Horiuchi rots in the bowls of hell and he better never pass in front of me when I am armed. Also don't forget that scum drove one of the tanks at Waco.
I had heard rumors to that end.
I don't think it was an accident though.
You haven't heard of the chi-coms harassing our spy flights since though.
The PRC still intercepts EP-3s and all the other recce aircraft. They don't hotdog now and intercept in a professional manner.
BTW, can you imagine how that might have played out if Al Gore had won...and Wesley Clarke was Secretary of Defense? We might be communicating via smoke signals now...
Since the event the PRC has been behaving itself on intercepts. My reply was to events post 2001 intercept incident.
Aaaw (sob, sniffle), will this hurt Bubba's chance as UN General Secretary??
I already called that one years ago.
Now how about you post a legitimate link to that source?
["I already called that one years ago."]
I'm not sure I know what you're implying here...could you explain a little more.
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