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Strategies & Market Trends : Asia Forum

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9403)10/18/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: Liatris Spicata  Read Replies (1) of 9980
 
Ron- From Today's Washington Post:

NATO, British and US officials denied a British newspaper report that NATO deliberately bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war after discovering the embassy was transmitting Yugoslav army communications.

"The tragic mistake was caused by human error," NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said of the May 7 bombing, which left
three people dead.

The Observer, a liberal weekly, quoted unidentified military and intelligence sources in the United States and Europe as saying NATO knew in April that the Chinese Embassy the in Yugoslav capital was being used as a "rebroadcast" facility.


I'm impressed that anyone thinks he can draw a conclusion about what policy ought to be based on even a valued scientist's return to tyranny. Not much to base a policy decision on. Most hard decisions will have a downside.

Larry

P.S. I thought the following was a picturesque example of Newspeak worthy of the best. Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in his first speech since overthrowing the elected government of Pakistan said, "This is not martial law. It is only another path to democracy."
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