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To: Ahda who wrote (20214)	10/1/1998 10:17:00 AM
From: waldo	Respond to of 116779

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To: Ahda who wrote (20214)	10/1/1998 10:23:00 AM
From: Alex	Respond to of 116779

US warships ready to hit Serbs By GEOFF KITNEY in Berlin and LIANE MARTINDALE in Kosovo American warships in the Mediterranean have been put on alert to position themselves for possible cruise missile strikes on Serb military targets in Yugoslavia as outraged Western governments edge towards ordering NATO intervention after new evidence of mass killings in Kosovo. NATO officials in Brussels have confirmed that cruise missile strikes would be the first phase of an air campaign in Yugoslavia, and that armed ships were "in theatre" and could be positioned within days. A missile attack would be followed by NATO air strikes. Several NATO member countries, including Germany, Britain and France have offered warplanes for air strikes. Diplomatic sources said planning for NATO operations had been completed and could begin as soon as the international community asked. A decision to order military operations was likely to come closer after a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council last night to discuss the latest evidence of apparent continuing Serb brutality in Kosovo, including two massacres of ethnic Albanian civilians in recent days. Following the discovery two days ago of the mutilated bodies of up to 18 women, children and elderly people near the village of Gronje Obringe, evidence of the summary execution nearby of up to 14 men was also found. An Albanian villager who survived the apparent execution is helping international observers to investigate and may be part of an inquiry by the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. Serb authorities have strongly denied that the killings were carried out by Serb security forces during a large operation against rebel ethnic Albanian separatists in the Drenica region of central Kosovo last weekend. Western governments are demanding an independent inquiry into the two massacres. The Austrian government described the killings as "bestial" and the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Robin Cook said the killings were not an act of war but "plain, cold murder". Several of the women, children and elderly killed at Gronje Obringe were shot in the back of the head or knifed. Yesterday, foreign observers were trying to get details of possible further atrocities in an area south-west of the Kosovo capital of Pristina, where a convoy of up to 200 vehicles - apparently a column of ethnic Albanian refugees - was found burnt out. There was no sign of the occupants of the convoy, apart from four bodies. Reports claimed the convoy had been stopped by Serb security forces and the men separated from the women and children, and then both groups taken away. The plight of displaced ethnic Albanians worsened yesterday when the International Red Cross suspended its operations in the Drenica region after one of its doctors was killed and a nurse injured when their vehicle hit a landmine. The doctor was an Albanian and the nurse a New Zealander, named as Maggie Bryson. She was not seriously injured. US satellite information is said to show that the Serb authorities are simply rotating their forces, rather than removing them. Columns of tanks and other military vehicles moving out were being replaced by others moving in. The Clinton Administration was briefing senior political figures yesterday on the situation in Kosovo and the US State Department spokesman, Mr James Foley, said "the clock is clearly ticking" towards military action. smh.com.au