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To: RealMuLan who wrote (12080)	6/15/1999 10:59:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

> I have a question about this. I am not sure whether somebody can help me. Did those 22,000 air strikes include the one attacking Chinese Embassy? If it was included, does that mean France approved it? And if it was not, does that mean CIA/Clinton has not get any approval from NATO before they sent that B-2 Bomber from the US directly? Thanks. Yiwu, I am sure Mr. Pickering has delivered the results of the "inquiry" for the Chinese Embassy bombing to the Chinese govt. today. Chinese have every right to be furious about this incident......What got me was that I did not hear anyone from the US administration say: "There will be a complete and full investigation of this incident and the people responsible for it will be held accountable". If there was the US embassy bombed by the Chinese you can only imagine what would happen if the Chinese came out and said.....sorry, sorry, mistake, it was a wrong map....provided by the CIA....sorry....

To: RealMuLan who wrote (12080)	6/16/1999 2:40:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Yiwu I am not informed on the Chinese embassy bombing by independent sources, so I cannot state anything about it. My feeling about the French Prime minister though is, that you cannot deduce anything from what he says. He wants to impose on his own people who aren't well informed about the happenings internal to NATO anyway. Nor am I. Your clever question is good for a joke upon the French Prime minister, but not for finding information about what may really have happened in the Chinese embassy bombing. My general impression with military is they are often not able to read a map, or calculate a position or a direction correctly even if they have a correct map. The difference between military and real life is the authority of military leaders allows them to do bigger mistakes without being held responsible. If the mistake becomes apparent, they are likely to hold someone else responsible in order to save their own authority. Maybe it is different in the Chinese army. But for me it is local experience. BTW I found a link in which it was said that the Chinese public has not been informed about nationalistic repression inside Serbia. Is this true? ( I can deliver on request). MNI.