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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (12134)	6/16/1999 1:49:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

If I don't comment it doesn't mean I do agree in this case. One comment: the car was shot at in Prizren, not Pristina. I thought your local knowledge was better founded in details? It is stated that after the shooting an AK47 assault rifle and a hand-grenade were found in the car. Independent journalists of several countries were at the scene, shooting their pictures while the soldiers used bullets. Finding those weapons is not a reason for shooting of course. It was claimed that the persons inside the car had randomly shot at a "NATO, NATO"-shouting mass, after that speeding against the German control point and shooting at the tanks and soldiers. There are no pictures of the assault. One German soldier was shot through the arm. Considering the poor state of military combat training in German troops it is conceivable though that the soldiers lost their nerve and shot without a good reason. To my impression the soldiers went on shooting for too long, when there seems to have been definitely no threat anymore with the driver killed and the second passenger only hanging in his seat, heavily bleeding and gasping. But of course I am totally unqualified to judge the situation. It was claimed also that journalists were the first ones at the car, and actually removed the wounded man from it. MNI

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (12134)	6/16/1999 6:32:00 AM
From: JBL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

You know that I believe this war was a fiasco, but I cannot agree with some of your interpretation of the facts we have so far. In particular, while your claim that "A lot of Albanians fled their villages due to Nato bombing and the intense fighting between KLA and Serbs...." is certainly true, I believe that the vast majority of refugees were forced by the Serb forces to leave their houses, and that there was indeed a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing. How else would you explain the apparently immense devastation to homes in Kosovo ? The KLA did not burn these houses, and it makes no sense that NATO could have bombed them either. It is a logical conclusion to infer that in a majority of cases, Serb forces did burn those houses. I am ready to reject collective blame and/or demonization of the Serb population. I am absolutely ready to question that a genocide took place, but I cannot believe that ethnic cleansing did not take place. Regards.