Delta Anyone?
>And that's why I no trust you.
Xi?
Derp Communist News Network Glowing again.
"A source familiar with the matter and a US official, told CNN"
>Why did some JDAMS get dropped on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade?
Partial Flash Back
Interesting it was 1999 and the current planetary alignment of Barbaults Basket etc, also lines up with 1999
25 Years Later: How a US Stealth Bomber Strike on China’s Belgrade Embassy Shook the World
https://thediplomat.com/2024/05/25-years-later-how-a-us-stealth-bomber-strike-on-chinas-belgrade-embassy-shook-the-world/
The CIA, the State Department, and British Foreign Office all maintained the strike was accidental, with the real target meant to be the headquarters of a Yugoslav arms agency. They claimed that the strike was the result of compounded errors, as the embassy was not clearly marked and NATO was using obsolete maps. This was not widely considered credible by experts or officials.
The Chinese government referred to U.S. explanations of the incident as “anything but convincing.” In 2017, Kyle Mizokami summarized prevailing views in the West at the time in the National Interest: “[I]t’s difficult to imagine that the vast U.S. military and intelligence apparatus could mistake an embassy with a traditional Chinese green tiled roof for a military logistical hub.”
At NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre in Vincenza, Italy, an American colonel was widely cited by Western media outlets near the end of the year for admitting to the intentional strike, stating: “That was great targeting … we put two JDAMs down into the attaché’s office and took out the exact room we wanted … they won’t be using that place for rebro [re-broadcasting radio transmissions] any more.”
Discourse surrounding the attack continued to evolve throughout the remainder of 1999, with new details continuing to emerge. Writers at The Observer, in a report published six months after the attack, described an episode at joint NATO command:
In the immediate aftermath of the attack there were some among non-U.S. staff who were suspicious. On 8 May they tapped into the NATO target computer and checked out the satellite coordinates for the Chinese Embassy. The coordinates 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 While the world was being told the CIA had used out-of-date maps, NATO’s officers were looking at evidence that the CIA was bang on target.
The Observer also cited the U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency as calling the Pentagon’s official story “a damned lie.” The Observer, citing a range of sources including multiple serving officers from NATO colonels to intelligence officers and a general, concluded that the Chinese Embassy was deliberately attacked. As one intelligence officer told the paper: “If it was the wrong building, why did they [U.S.] use the most precise weapons on Earth to hit the right end of that ‘wrong building’?”
Speculated motives for the CIA operation vary. The Observer’s report concluded that “The Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was deliberately targeted … because it was being used by Zeljko Raznatovic, the indicted war criminal better known as Arkan, to transmit messages to his ‘Tigers’ – Serb death squads – in Kosovo.” That was the “rebro” factor cited by the U.S. colonel above.
Other possible motives included sending a strong signal to the Yugoslav leadership that the international community, including China as the world’s leading non-Western power, could not save it from the Western assault. Still others speculate that Chinese intelligence was using the embassy to monitor NATO cruise missile strikes under combat conditions with the view to developing countermeasures.
Western security experts the writer spoke to otherwise reported that the military attaché’s office had gathered parts from a U.S. F-117 stealth fighter shot down by Yugoslav forces 41 days prior at the embassy, with the intention of sending them to China for study. U.S. intelligence viewed it as imperative to prevent these highly sensitive technologies from reaching Chinese soil. At the time, the F-117 was the first and only stealth fighter class operational anywhere in the world, and access to the remains of its airframe could provide both support to China’s own then-ongoing stealth fighter development while also accelerating its forces’ progress in developing means to counter such aircraft.
In 2019, the BBC noted, “It’s widely assumed that China did get hold of pieces of the [F-117] plane to study its technology.”
Thus even among those who hold that the strike was intentional – which is denied by the U.S. government and NATO to this day – the motive remains disputed and can likely be attributed to a combination of multiple factors.