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...days and involving more than 900 aircraft, hundreds of cruise missiles, four aircraft carriers and more than a dozen other ships and submarines. Their mission was to use air power to halt or diminish a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing being carried out by more than 50,000 Serb military, police and paramilitary against 1 1/2 million virtually defenseless ethnic Albanians. More than 250 fixed targets were attacked, including airfields, communications facilities, fuel depots, and military and police headquarters. The more than 1,000 strikes conducted against enemy forces in Kosovo--while not destroying as much Serbian military equipment...
...reflected, at least on the allied side, all the inhibitions of two centuries of effort to limit warfare as well as a growing spirit of international community. As a French pilot remarked during the operation, "We don't want to bomb these bridges over the Danube or hurt the Serb people. They are our European brothers. And who will have to pay to rebuild the bridges?" The political constraints of Operation Allied Force and the preoccupation with avoiding casualties and risks were derived from its purpose--to support human rights and promote regional stability--and the fact that NATO member...
MOMCILO KRAJISNIK Indicted Bosnian Serb war criminal enters not-guilty plea. "The L.A.P.D...
ARRESTED. MOMCILO KRAJISNIK, 55, top Bosnian Serb war leader; by NATO troops; on war crimes charges, including genocide; in Pale, Bosnia. He pleaded not guilty in the Hague...
...Achievement and Challenge," published Tuesday in a preemptive strike against the growing chorus of criticism of the operation's achievements a year after the alliance began bombing Yugoslavia. Robertson argues that NATO lost only two planes and no pilots, inflicted minimal civilian casualties, and succeeded in driving out Serb forces and returning refugees to their homes. Last June there were 50 deaths each week in Kosovo, he notes, while today there are only five. Still, the defensive tone of his report signals that NATO has failed to realize its lofty aim of creating a thriving democratic, multiethnic Kosovo - and more...