[PEN-L:8341] Re: More on the Embassy Bombing

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Henry C.K. Liu wrote:

>REPORT: 2 CHINESE VICTIMS IN U.S. RAID IN BELGRADE REPORTEDLY WERE SPIES
>
>Two of the three Chinese killed in last month's Chinese Embassy bombing in
>Belgrade were not journalists -- but intelligence officers!
>
>So claims a report in late editions of Friday's NEW YORK TIMES.
>
>The American bombs that struck the embassy destroyed the compound's
>intelligence-gathering nerve center.
>
>The highly sensitive nature of the parts of the embassy that were bombed
>suggests why the Chinese insist the bombing was no accident.
>
>"That's exactly why they don't buy our explanation," one Pentagon official
>tells the TIMES.  (End)
>
>What is the conclusion?
>The bombing was justified as a mission to kill spies?

No, there's very good reason to believe the bombing wasn't accidental.

Doug