From:	Walter Scheper Ratlaw@*******.com
Subject:	Second Hand
Date:	Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:26:35 +0000 (GMT)

On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:39:40 -0400, IronRaven
<cyberraven@********.net> wrote:

>At 14.54 09-03-99 +0200, you wrote:
>>getting a City-map in which all chinese embassys are marked with DONT BOMB
>>THAT ONE
>
> Offically, it was an accident.
> One that occured within two months of a ChiCom sponsered spies being found
>(in theory) at a nuclear lab, the reniging on the part of the Chinese on a
>mionr promise about the treatment of "thought prisoners", a nasty little
>game around Taiwan, a threat to Taiwan, the start of trade talks, a failure
>to crack down on copyright pirates as they had promised at the last trade
>talks, and other problems.
> If that reallywas an "oops", you'll be able to knock me over with a
>fether, becuase I will be quite physcially stunned. No one who can talk
>off the record beleives it was an accident. It was a message. "Don't ****
>with US."
>
I heard that the CIA picked that target and only that target, and that
some people from China who might be of particular interest to the
intelligence community were in the embassy at the time. Course this
is all unconfirmed on my part, but if it were true then it would make
a lot of sense, especially in light of the Cox Report.

Walter