Re: military strike possible?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ranjeet Shetye [mailto:ranjeet.shetye2 () zultys com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:29 AM
> To: 'Raymer, Dan'
> Cc: ''Meritt James'', 'security-basics () securityfocus com'
> Subject: RE: military strike possible?
>
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 13:08, Raymer, Dan wrote:
> > considering that intelligence can't even tell a Chinese embassy from a
> > warehouse or where senior leadership is having a meeting, how do they
> > expect
> > to hit a bunch of teenage script kiddies (or heavens forbid, REAL
> > crackers)
> > coordinating an attack via IRC?
>
> word on the streets was that the Chinese embassy was actively helping
> the Yugoslavs track American planes and co-ordinate attacks on American
> planes by adapting Russian technology. Remember the stealth fighter
> F-117A that was lost initially ? After the Chinese embassy was
> "counselled out", no more American F-117A were lost.

That rumor was rolling all over Washington, you'll note that there were never any charges against that B-2 crew, yet 
they tried to crucify those two ANG pilots for accidentally killing those Canadian troops.

In Washington, the game is called "plausible deniability". . .

> as i said, no solid proof, just word on the streets.

. . . and a lot of circumstantial evidence.  Remember the words of von Clausewitz:  "Politics is war by other means". . 
.



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