Word: serb
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NATO's massive attack on a Serb-held air base Monday seemed to have little impact as Serbs today set northwest Bosnian villages on fire, sending civilians fleeing for their lives. They also fired missiles at two NATO jets flying over Serb-held areas (the missiles missed their targets). And Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs, promised to unleash awave of retaliation against NATO and its members. "We will determine the time and the target of the revenge ourselves, but we will definitely make sure that it is painful for NATO nations," Karadzic told Bosnian Serb television. Even Bosnian...
...NATO's biggest attack in its 45-year history, 30 warplanes today bombed a base where Serbs equipped planes with napalm bombs used last week against the Bosnians in Bihac. TheNATO raidfollowed Saturday's U.N. resolution specifically authorizing an attack on Serb-held Croatia, the airfield location. U.S., British, French and Dutch jets were deployed in the air strike -- NATO's seventh since the Bosnian war started in April 1992 -- which will put the base out of commission for just a month. Yet, it represented a dramatic departure from previous "pinprick" NATO attacks in which one or two warplanes bombed...
...Serb forces,defying stern United Nations warnings, today crossed a deadly threshold in the Bosnian struggle by dropping napalm on a "safe area" designated by the U.N. The incident in northwest Bosnia was the first confirmed use of napalm in the 2 1/2-year war. NATO was reportedly considering a response.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...tactics caught the Bosnian Serbs, who had come to discount the Muslims' fighting ability, by surprise. Bosnian Serb soldiers have been demoralized by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's decision last August to close his border with Bosnia, cutting off fuel and spare parts for the Bosnian ! Serb army. Its longstanding edge in mobility and firepower -- a heavy-weapons arsenal 10 times as big as the Bosnian government's -- is diminishing as fuel and supplies dwindle. Less fuel also means fewer rotations back home, hurting morale...
...Bosnians owe much of their reversal of fortune to the adoption of the successful guerrilla tactics used by Tito's communists in the former Yugoslavia almost a half-century ago. Bosnian army units, some with barely 100 men, began ambushing Serb forces at 16 different locations around the country. Instead of the frontal assaults that foundered against the Serbs' superior firepower, says U.N. spokesman Paul Risley in Zagreb, the Bosnians "are employing commando tactics to grab territory." The breadth of the government offensive has exposed how thin the Serb defenses are: reinforcements dispatched to the Bihac region came from Kupres...