From:	Iridios iridios@*********.com
Subject:	Second Hand
Date:	Mon, 06 Sep 1999 16:49:11 -0400

Ken wrote:

<big ol' snip>

> Ok Let me put in a personal opinion here. If I had an embassy with Tons of
> sensitive material inside. I wouldn't tell ANYONE when I was moving...well
> maybe After the move was complete. Now that that's out of the way...

Actually, it probably works in an embassy's favor if everyone knows
exactly when and where they are moving. Then their friends and
enemies are all watching and no one is likely to try anything under
such scrutiny.


> What I got from your post was that the U.S. MEANT to hit the Chinese
> embassy. Why would they?...

There could be any number of reasons. The most obvious (and probably
most accepted) is retaliation for the theft of nuclear secrets. But I
think that the Chinese were targeted for a more subtle reason. IMO
(and this is only my opinion as I have no evidence of any kind) the
Chinese were probably targeted because they were considering or were
already 'assisting' the Serbs; but as I said, there is absolutely no
evidence that I know of.


> ... I just don't see the reason for it. In SR Most
> Megas don't operate in such a Heavy handed fashion, they like to do things
> behind the scenes (that's why Runners get hired) and for business purposes
> (most often).

In SR, the Megas aren't involved in open conflict that provides them
with "Targets of Opportunity". If there were an out and out Corp War
that involved para-military forces and heavy ordinance, I'd think you
would see the occasional "miss".

> ... I have
> heard that it was to redress wounded Honor for daring to steal Nuke
> Technology. Why do something so obvious for something like that? I'm
> hearing arguments for "Accident" and "Not Bloody Likely" Does
anyone have
> any opinions as to "Why Would they do something like that?"

Subterfuge covering subterfuge covering yet more subterfuge. Publicly
it's claimed to be an accident (IMO a very unlikely probability) for
which America apologizes. The majority of people will see through
this because of the "events" preceding (the theft of American nuclear
secrets) and they will believe it is retalitory (which it is, but that
is only part of the reason). The retaliation story misdirects
attention from any real reason. Who knows, maybe China was backing
India or Pakistan and we (the U.S.) don't want them to do so (of
course this is hypocritical, since we are probably backing one
ourselves).


>
> Now bear in mind that I'm not subscribing to either theory...but for the
> sake of the question, lets assume that the U.S. meant to hit the embassy and
> are darn proud of their marksmanship. What reason could they have...sounds
> like something that a group of runners might be hired to find out


--
Iridios
"Accept what you cannot avoid,
Avoid what you cannot accept."