Word: yugoslavs
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...temperatures to get the bills. By day's end, a small grocery on the city's main street had 4.50[Euro] in its till, though prices were still shown in German marks, the official currency since 1999. Kosovars are used to a variety of currencies: U.S. dollars, Swiss francs, Yugoslav dinars. Now there's the euro. Says shopkeeper Shukrane Shaqiri, warming her hands by a stove: "It's the same for us, as long as it's money...
...were picked up by Northern Alliance supporters, who allowed U.S. troops to move in with helicopters and whisk them to Pakistan. Georg Taubmann, one of the German aid workers, said their release was "like a miracle." THE NETHERLANDS More Evidence Prosecutors at the U.N. war crimes tribunal charged former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with genocide in Bosnia, in the third case filed against him so far. Evidence from recent exhumations of mass graves may be included in the indictment charging Milosevic with the deaths of possibly thousands of people between 1992 and 1995. A former Yugoslav navy admiral, Miodrag Jokic...
...feet, it is a miracle if it arrives intact. And when these food packets do reach the ground safely, it is unlikely that they reach their intended recipients. In 1999, U.S. forces conducted a similar operation in Kosovo, and most of the food ended up in the hands of Yugoslav soldiers. Even Rep. Jim Colby (R-Ariz.), who chairs the congressional committee that approved the food drops, admits that the operation is “symbolic more than anything...
...commodity to be won, not assumed as of right. Officials want cockpit videos of bomb strikes to confirm immediate achievements. But post-conflict analysis typically shows that barely one-third of videoed explosions caused the purported damage. In Kosovo, Britain?s Chief of Defence Staff reported "significant" damage to Yugoslav tanks from nato bombing. After the fighting, most destroyed "tanks" were found to be crude wooden fakes. NATO officials later conceded that many war claims had been knowingly exaggerated to impress public opinion. So now should we believe British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon?s statement that bombing has destroyed...
...reliable numbers, it is not numbers but images that give "collateral damage" incidents their power to affect the course of war: the young Vietnamese girl, her skin burned away by napalm, running down a street; the corpses of Iraqi women killed in a bomb shelter; bodies strewn around a Yugoslav passenger train struck by a NATO rocket, and so on. Already Al Jezeera, the only TV network with a bureau in Kabul, is carrying images of the broken bodies of civilian casualties. And on the Internet, ordinary citizens are able to see the latest photographs posted by the wire services...