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Politics : War
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (945)3/26/2001 12:14:59 PM
From: TimF   of 23908
 
It appears that the real target was an airfield. But bombs sometimes miss their targets. I think this happened largely because of the fact that the planes where flying to high for this type of mission (attacking an airfield near residential areas with cluster bombs) to reduce the risk to the pilots. Its hard to argue that NATO should have put its pilots in more danger but some of these type of attacks probably should have been done at low level or not at all.

Tim

news.bbc.co.uk

"Nato has confirmed that one of its cluster bombs aimed at an airfield target in the Yugoslav city of Nis may have
mistakenly hit a civilian area. Fifteen people died after the daylight Nato strike, which hit a hospital and market place."
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