Davis_Chan

colonel,do you have any convincible explanations about the incident of chinese embassy bombing in Yugoslavia ? i suppose u gave ur answer in this forum before,but i missed it.

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TopHatter

In other words, outdated intelligence.


However I'm still not sure how the French embassy managed to get damaged during Operation El Dorado Canyon...

dave angel

I'm given to understand that the Chinese embassy had moved in the year or so before the conflict, so it wouldn't of appeared as such on street maps.

secondly the reason - apparently - that the building was targeted was that significant electronic signals traffic was eminating from the building. perfectly understandable really, what with there being a war on...

so you have a building noticed because of its signals traffic which doesn't appear on the maps. in war, you blow such things up.

f*ck up.

conspiracy theorists say it was deleberately destroyed because the Chinese were helping the Serbs and the embassy was sending intelligence gained back to China. this has two flaws: even if the Chinese were helping the Serbs that help wasn't very effective (so it didn't really matter), and secondly blowing up the embassy of a UNSC P5 member who happens to have lots of ICBM's is rather a big risk in anyone's book, the proposed benefits of such action must be very large indeed to justify taking that risk - and stopping some minor intelligence reaching the Chinese (ie: theres fecking loads of them, and they come at night to drop bombs which are very accurate) and utterly inneffective assistance reaching the Serbs - just doesn't come close.

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