US bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade (1999)
1999
── Yugoslav war (1999)
── Robert Greene, Mastery, 2012, p.316
── Cesar Rodriguez Jr.
── Yugoslavian air force MiG during the Yugoslav war (1999).
── look up en.wikipedia.org Yugoslav war 1999
── https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
On 7 May, the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists and injuring at least 20.[80] The US defence secretary explained the cause of the error as "because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map", but the Chinese government did not accept this explanation. The Chinese government issued a statement on the day of the bombing, stating that it was a "barbarian act".[81]
the following section is fictional: The U.S. air force ran out of high valued target to bomb, they have plenty of [cruise missile] left to use up; they asked the Central Intelligence Agency if they have anything in their intelligence that is worth targeting; the Central Intelligence Agency passed on some targets, and one of the coordinates - marked as a warehouse - turned out to be the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. (p.47, George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the center of the storm : my years at the CIA, 2007)
The US president Bill Clinton apologised for the bombing, saying it was an accident.[82][83][84] The US gave China financial compensation.[85][86] The bombing strained relations between the People's Republic of China and NATO, provoking angry demonstrations outside Western embassies in Beijing.[87] The victims were Xu Xinghu, his wife Zhu Ying, and Shao Yunhuan.
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George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the center of the storm : my years at the CIA, 2007
p.47
During the course of the brief air war in the Balkans, CIA had provided intelligence on scores of military-selected targets. Soon, though, the Pentagon started to run out of militarily significant sites to hit and asked the Agency to suggest targets that we wanted to see destroyed.
p.47
Unfortunately, the warehouse had been mis-plotted on maps not intended for the creation of strike package [so a map was consulted to look for possible target because the Pentagon was about run out of things to bomb; this map is not supposed to be used for creation of strike package; and on this map, the Chinese embassy is plotted as warehouse]. In fact, we had given the Pentagon the coordinates of the Chinese embassy. The warehouse was about three hundred meters away.
p.49
In the days just before the war in Iraq started, in March of 2003, one of my senior officers from the Directorate of Operations came up to me with a smile and said, “Hey, boss, you aren't going to believe this. We just got an urgent back-channel message from the Chinese intelligence service.” He paused for effect, having gotten my attention.
“So, what did they say?” I asked.
“They sent us the geographic coordinates for their embassy in Baghdad and said they hoped it was accurately listed in all the Pentagon's databases.”
George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the center of the storm : my years at the CIA, 2007
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p.45
Information integrity and availability are also crucial to the modern military's decision making. The cruise missile attack on the offices of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, during the May 1999 NATO war against the Yugoslavian government illustrates this.
NATO and USAF officials confirmed that the cruise missile went to the right target and flew in the right window on the right floor to destroy the Yugoslavian government office that was located there -- except, they say, they used outdated information and didn't realize that the building had been rented out to the Chinese embassy much earlier.
Whether this was a case of bad data availability in action -- right place, wrong tenant at wrong time -- or whether there was some other secret targeting strategy in action depends on which Internet speculations you wish to follow.
((isc) sscp : systems security certified practitioner : official study guide, 3rd edition, 2022, p.45)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade
United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
Part of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War
Chinese-embassy-belgrade-post-bombing.JPG
The Embassy Building in 2009, demolished in 2011. In 1999, the embassy was damaged by the United States.
Location Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Coordinates 44.8250°N 20.4190°E
Date May 7, 1999
Target Disputed
Attack type Aerial bombing
Deaths 3[1]
Injured At least 20[1]
Perpetrators United States Air Force
On May 7, 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (Operation Allied Force), five U.S. Joint Direct Attack Munition guided bombs hit the People's Republic of China embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese state media journalists and outraging the Chinese public.[2] According to the U.S. government, the intention had been to bomb the nearby Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement (FDSP).
A report by the French Ministry of Defense after the war said that "part of the military operations were conducted by the United States outside the strict framework of NATO"[25] and that a dual-track command structure existed. NATO had no authority to use any B-2 stealth bomber, which was used to carry out the strike.[25] That the United States was running missions outside of NATO's joint command structure was a source of some contention between the U.S. and other members of NATO, especially France.[26]
On the night of May 7–8, the strike was carried out by a single B-2 bomber with a crew of two[30] of the United States Air Force's 509th Bomb Wing flying directly out of Whiteman AFB, Missouri. The bomber was armed with JDAM GPS-guided precision bombs accurate to 13 m (14 yd). However, the geographic coordinates provided by the CIA and programmed into the bombs were those of the Chinese embassy 440 m (480 yd) away. At around midnight local time, five bombs landed at different points on the embassy complex. The embassy had taken precautionary measures in view of the ongoing bombing campaign, sending staff home and housing others in the basement,[31]
"Truth behind America's raid on Belgrade". The Observer. London. November 28, 1999. Retrieved October 18, 2021. In the immediate aftermath of the attack there were some among non-US staff who were suspicious. On 8 May they tapped into the Nato target computer and checked out the satellite co-ordinates for the Chinese Embassy. The co-ordinates were in the computer and they were correct. While the world was being told the CIA had used out-of-date maps, Nato's officers were looking at evidence that the CIA was bang on target.
Diamond, John (2008). The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the end of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq. Stanford University Press. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-8047-5601-3. In the predawn hours of May 7, 1999, a single B-2 "Spirit" bomber took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri for the fifteen-hour flight to Belgrade. The highly trained two-member crew,...
Diamond, John (2008). The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the end of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq. Stanford University Press. pp. 330–332. ISBN 978-0-8047-5601-3.
https://archive.org/details/ciacultureoffail00john/
William Cohen told reporters "In simple terms, one of our planes attacked the wrong target because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map".[56] The statement made no mention of the CIA.
Salon interview with William M. Arkin
A 2000 Salon article by Laura Rozen featured an interview of Washington Post columnist and former intelligence officer William M. Arkin, who stated his belief that the bombing was accidental. Rozen reported that the Chinese embassy and the Hotel Yugoslavia are across the street from each other, and that in the Hotel Yugoslavia, Željko Ražnatović owned a casino and had a headquarters. Both the Hotel Yugoslavia and the Chinese embassy were bombed the same night of May 7.[84][85]
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The agents against whom action has been taken have not been identified. However, reports in the US yesterday said that the sacked agent was a mid-level career officer whose targeting error was blamed for the incident.
The CIA says the bombing was caused when the now sacked officer mistakenly identified the military supply HQ on a street map on the basis of its address, 2 Bulevar Umetnosti, which was in fact several hundred yards away from the building housing the Chinese embassy. ([ ... ])
The map on which the target was identified was a 1997 map that showed the Chinese embassy located at its earlier address in the centre of Belgrade.
After the location was wrongly fixed, it was discussed during three meetings among CIA officials, none of whom questioned the targeting procedure that had been used. The target details were then passed to the Pentagon and Nato (??), but were not queried there either.
"The CIA lacked formal procedures for preparing and forwarding target nomination packages to the US military," Mr Harlow admitted.
to blame individual CIA officers when "the failure was systematic".
Roy Krieger said: "It's shameful that the CIA caved in to political pressure to provide scapegoats. The agency has already publicly admitted that the map provided to the officers contained errors without which the Chinese embassy would not have been mistakenly bombed. These officers were asked to improvise and did the best with the materials provided to them."
(] it [what is it?] is the nature of the system such that, there be an assigned scapegoat - you sacrifice the goat to atone for the sin of the entire village - a very Semitic thing (like traditional tribal Jew Arab Semitic[Middle Eastern and parts of Africa language group, to include Hebrew and Arabic]), but did not originated within Jewish culture; for example, in Japanese (Nippon, Nihon) culture, a truly ... act would involved the head of the organization or some department head resigning, and the guys or the people that resigned, not only did not do it, probably did not know that the things they are resigning for, happened (that's unfair, ain't it; they didn't know it; they didn't do it, they were not involved in it; and they are out of a job (living wage)) (different culture); ...; again, you gonna see ... in other culture, a practice for atonement [)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/10/balkans
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David Brooks, The Second Mountains, 2019
pp.218-219
In its outline, the Jesus story is a pretty familiar myth, which probably recurs in all cultures: The city is riven by fractures, by cycles of vengence and counter-vengence. The only way to purge the hatred and division is by piling the sins of the community onto a scapegoat. It is by casting out the scapegoat that the sins of the society can be externalized and expurgated. It is by killing the scapegoat that unity is achieved.
Jesus is the classic scapegoat, the innocent outsider that all the groups could rally around in their bloodlust, and dump their hatreds on. The only thing that is different about the Jesus story ── and it is a big difference ── is that in this story Jesus came to earth precisely to be the scapegoat. He volunteered for this job, forgave those who executed him, and willingly carried the sins of the world on his shoulders. He came not to be the awesome conquering Messiah that most of would want, but to be the lamb, to submit, to love his enemies. He came not to be victim of sin but the solution. His strength was self-sacrificed, and his weapon is love so that we might live.
That's a clever plot twist.
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pp.218-219
In its outline, the Jesus story is a pretty familiar myth, which probably recurs in all cultures: The city is riven by fractures, by cycles of vengence and counter-vengence. The only way to purge the hatred and division is by piling the sins of the community onto a scapegoat. It is by casting out the scapegoat that the sins of the society can be externalized and expurgated. It is by killing the scapegoat that unity is achieved.
Jesus is the classic scapegoat, the innocent outsider that all the groups could rally around in their bloodlust, and dump their hatreds on. The only thing that is different about the Jesus story ── and it is a big difference ── is that in this story Jesus came to earth precisely to be the scapegoat. He volunteered for this job, forgave those who executed him, and willingly carried the sins of the world on his shoulders. He came not to be the awesome conquering Messiah that most of would want, but to be the lamb, to submit, to love his enemies. He came not to be victim of sin but the solution. His strength was self-sacrificed, and his weapon is love so that we might live.
That's a clever plot twist.
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([ some one in the Pentagon ran out of high valued targets to bomb; and being creative, they thought the CIA might be able to contribute some intelligence to the bombing effort, after all, this is the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); unfortunately, the CIA does not have a process for nominating targets for bombing; so in an ad hoc process, they came up with a target (targets), and not only was that not the right target, that target was the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia; we can make case on either sides, in the middle, and somewhere in between of how and why the CIA got it right or got it wrong, or maybe, the Pentagon should not have asked the CIA for high valued military target; ... ((the text has been removed for not being factually true as to what the CIA do, organizationally, ...)) ... : small, covert, insurgency, or counter insurgency; the fact is that the US bombed a Chinese embassy, a bunch of people died, got hurt, and injured; the question is what is the remedy for this transgression (screw up); .... thus the idea of a scapegoat ...; whether the incident is systemmic or
that there is a root cause or
multiple co-dependent causes, or
interdependence,
depending where and how you want to draw the line (the boundary, the edge), that is its own thing; blood has been spilled and to quote, unquote, save-face, if the US has any political and diplomatic sense related to the Chinese PRC, ... ])
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that there is a root cause or
multiple co-dependent causes, or
interdependence,
depending where and how you want to draw the line (the boundary, the edge), that is its own thing; blood has been spilled and to quote, unquote, save-face, if the US has any political and diplomatic sense related to the Chinese PRC, ... ])
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