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Strategies & Market Trends : The Thread Formerly Known as No Rest For The Wicked -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tim Luke who wrote (22530)	3/31/1999 11:59:00 PM
From: kathyh	Respond to of 90042

Until now, I thought we only had men in the air... had no idea we had any troops on the ground... here's the story... BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- As NATO forces broadened their attacks on Yugoslavia, warning no place would be a "sanctuary" for Serb forces, an extensive search-and-rescue operation was under way to find three U.S. soldiers who vanished Wednesday on a routine reconnaissance mission near the Yugoslavian border. Helicopters from several NATO nations and ground troops including Macedonian police were combing the region. The missing soldiers were part of a larger patrol near the Macedonian village of Kumanovo when the group decided to split up into teams. At about 2:30 p.m. local time Wednesday (7:30 a.m. EST), the three men radioed that they had come under small-arms fire by unknown gunmen. Shortly afterward, they reported being surrounded; then radio contact was lost. Search efforts began almost immediately, but there has been no sign of the soldiers or their Humvee. Pentagon officials would not speculate on who might be responsible, but they indicated that Yugoslav or Serb military forces, special police units or Macedonian Serbs could have been involved. The U.S. army troops were part of what used to be a U.N. peacekeeping mission charged with monitoring the border between Macedonia and Yugoslavia. When that mission ended in February, the troops remained as part of a NATO border force. Earlier Wednesday, NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana said the alliance remained determined to halt the killings of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and to damage the Serb "war machinery" in Yugoslavia as much as possible. Solana told CNN the basic objectives had not changed. He said the aim of Operation Allied Force was to "damage as much as possible the machinery of war, and the destruction of the Serbian army and the military police." "We are going to continue to damage as much as possible those units that are responsible for the criminal acts that have taken place in Kosovo," he said.