Chinese Embassy:Just an Accident & Besides They Were Spies Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit ............................................................... America: The Pathological Liar Spins a New Tale So the Chinese don't buy the tale of old maps and the analyst who wondered but went off on training, etc etc etc? They don't buy it. It's "unconvincing." ok, well, in that case, it never happened, and besides, they deserved it: We didn't kill journalists, we killed spies -- two of them, anyway. Yeah... that's it! They had spies in their embassy! Imagine, just like every embassy in the world. And not only that -- you know the part of the embassy we bombed by accident? Well that was the Intelligence center, and as we all know the Chinese were reliably reported to be helping those Serb savages... But of course, it was just an accident !! Only they don't believe us so now we have the chutzpah to change the whole story and we'll use anonymous leaks to thumb our noses at those Chinese. " * Saturday June 26, 4:34 pm Eastern Time Spies, not journalists, died in China embassy -US WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - Two of the three Chinese killed last month when U.S. bombs hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade were intelligence agents, not journalists as China has said, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday. `It is true that they were not journalists. Two were intelligence agents,'' said the official, who asked not to be identified. The official confirmed a report in the New York Times on Friday that two of the three Chinese killed were spies, not journalists. China has said one of those killed worked for the official Xinhua news agency and the other two, a husband-and-wife team, worked for Guangming Daily. The U.S. official said that the bombs, dropped by U.S. B-2 stealth bombers on May 7, `hit a part of the embassy that was involved in intelligence gathering.'' The incident sparked anti-U.S. protests in China and further strained relations between the two countries. The United States repeatedly has apologized to China for the bombing, which also wounded about 20 other people. U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering recently traveled to China to explain what happened, but China said the explanation was unconvincing. The United States has blamed a series of errors, including outdated CIA maps and databases that did not show the embassy had moved to a new location. The intended target, a Yugoslav military procurement office, was located nearby. Defense Department spokesman Ken Bacon said on Thursday an intelligence analyst at the CIA tried to warn colleagues and military officers in Europe that the intended target was not at that location, although he did not know the Chinese embassy was there. In another development, the leader of Serbia's main opposition party told a German newspaper he suspected that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic had received an offer of political asylum from China. `I have indications that Milosevic has received an offer to flee to China, get asylum there and therefore not be handed over to The Hague,'' Democratic Party leader Zoran Djindjic said in an interview due to appear in the Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag. Milosevic has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal, which is based at The Hague in the Netherlands. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nyteeu-06.27.99-03:10:10-7053