United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade

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On May 7, 1999, a United States Air Force B-2 Spirit, participating in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, dropped five Joint Direct Attack Munition satellite-guided bombs on the Embassy of China, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia, killing three Chinese journalists and injuring twenty-seven others. This incident is known by many in Serbia and in China as the May 8 incident. According to the United States, the intention had been to bomb the headquarters of Yugoslav weapons importer Yugoimport, which existed 440 meters south of the Embassy of China, on the same street. At-the-time President of the United States, Bill Clinton, apologized for the bombing and claimed it was an accident. The United States of America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director at the time of the bombing, George Tenet, later testified that the embassy bombing was the only one in the campaign organized by the CIA, and that the CIA had "miscalculated" the geopositioning of the Yugoimport's building's coordinates from its address...

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