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To: greenspirit who wrote (40304)	3/28/1999 1:21:00 PM
From: pz	Respond to of 67261

Bubba did a great job thinking all this through all right....geez. Attack on Moscow Embassy Foiled By Angela Charlton Associated Press Writer Sunday, March 28, 1999; 12:44 p.m. EST MOSCOW (AP) -- Gunmen with grenade launchers and an assault rifle opened fire on the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on Sunday, in an attack apparently linked to opposition to NATO airstrikes on Yugoslavia. Police firing pistols drove the attackers away from the embassy, which was hit by several bullets but suffered minimal damage. No one was hurt. Protesters in other capitals around the world demonstrated Sunday against the ongoing NATO operation, directing most of their anger at the United States. No one claimed responsibility for the Moscow attack. Russia fiercely opposes the NATO bombings, and rallies have been held at the U.S. Embassy since Thursday. Russian news agencies cited police sources as saying three people had been arrested in the attack, but police officials would not confirm any arrests. A white jeep pulled up in front of the embassy and two of the occupants aimed grenade launchers at the building, as shown in footage aired on Russia's NTV television network. One gunman in a ski mask and camouflage fatigues, who had climbed out of the jeep to aim a rocket launcher, jumped back in the vehicle when police opened fire. One attacker then opened fire from inside the jeep with a semi-automatic rifle, sending police and bystanders diving for cover. The two rocket launchers were left on the road as the jeep sped away from the 10-story, mustard-colored building on a major Moscow street. The vehicle was later found abandoned nearby. An embassy spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said no one in the embassy had been injured and that security was being tightened. Non-essential embassy personnel had been told not to come to the embassy over the weekend because of the protests. The government condemned Sunday's attack. President Boris Yeltsin's spokesman Dmitry Yakushkin said the shooting ''throws a shadow on Russia, which is now making titanic efforts to mediate the crisis in Yugoslavia.'' Scores of police and troops with automatic weapons ringed the embassy after the attack. A few hundred protesters also remained. In September 1995, a masked attacker fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the embassy that exploded in an empty office. No one was injured and there was no claim of responsibility, but the attack came a day after the Kremlin accused NATO of genocide against the Bosnian Serbs. Bombings, shootings and gangland killings have become commonplace in Moscow, and weapons are readily available. In other protests Sunday: -- In Sydney, Australia, about 7,000 protesters attacked the U.S. consulate. Some hurled broken pieces of concrete through windows of a shop and restaurant in the building where the U.S. diplomatic facility is located, and many compared President Clinton to Adolf Hitler. One protester scaled two floors of the building and ripped down a U.S. flag, which was later burned by youths standing atop a bus shelter. Demonstrations also occurred in Melbourne and Canberra. -- In Salzburg, Austria, about 3,500 people carried banners denouncing the NATO air strikes, waved Yugoslav flags and declared their support for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, the Austria Press Agency reported. -- French riot police used tear gas to disperse about 300 Serb supporters who threw rocks and toppled security barriers in demonstration in front the U.S. Embassy in Paris.

To: greenspirit who wrote (40304)	3/28/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

Michael:I have not had time to read everything in these sites, but I wanted to respond anyway. I don't think that these things are under attack, for the most part, but I am not sure. I hope not. I don't think that an attempt to regulate content of anything that could otherwise be legitimately published would stand up in court, though. The biggest danger would be one where their carriers were made liable for content, and I don't think that will fly. It is reasonable that Drudge can be sued, but not that his ISP can be. If such a thing occurred, it would frighten off providers. However, they do not "publish", they merely rent space, as at a public meeting...