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To: dumbmoney who wrote (1382)	4/3/1999 10:43:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

The conflict now officially spreads in Bosnia...let's see the Serbs take more Nato soldiers prisoners and Billie cries "this is illegal and there is no basis for their capture, they were just inncoent bystander blowing up the railtracks in order to keep the peace!!!" NATO-led troops blow up the Bosnian portion of Yugoslav railway 4.10 p.m. ET (2110 GMT) April 3, 1999 By Aida Cerkez-Robinson, Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — NATO-led troops came under fire Saturday while destroying the Bosnian portion of a key rail link between Serbia and Yugoslavia's other republic, Montenegro, which has opposed Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic. The commander of the NATO-led forces in Bosnia, U.S. Gen. Montgomery Meigs, said the railway that runs through Bosnia was cut to prevent it from being used for military purposes by the Yugoslav army. "The railroad comes out of ... Yugoslavia into Bosnia-Herzegovina and back into Montenegro. We had indications that it would be used by military elements,'' said Meigs, who heads the NATO-led stabilization force stationed in Bosnia. Yugoslavia, which consists of Serbia and Montenegro, has been under NATO air attacks for 11 days in an international effort to force Milosevic into signing a peace deal for the Serbian province of Kosovo. The president of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic, has spoken out against both the NATO attacks and also Milosevic's confrontational policy toward the West. Western officials said Friday they have evidence Milosevic is plotting to oust Djukanovic. The rail line is a major link between the two republics and could have been used to transport additional troops into Montenegro. Maj. Sheena Thomson, a spokeswoman for the stabilization force, known as SFOR, said a "controlled detonation'' cut the rail line Saturday morning. She said it would be reopened when the conflict in Yugoslavia ends. Col. Lee Hockmann, an SFOR spokesman in Sarajevo, said Belgrade has one other railway link to Montenegro, through Kosovo. Meigs said the NATO-led forces in Bosnia, who are not taking part in the attacks on Yugoslavia, came under automatic weapons fire while blowing up the Yugoslav rail link in eastern Bosnia, near the Yugoslav border. He said SFOR troops fired back and that his forces suffered no casualties. Thomson said later that the soldiers saw one of the attackers fall, apparently hit. Thomson said SFOR could not verify his condition. Bosnian Serb television claimed the SFOR soldiers killed Vidoje Tomic, a railway guard. The television showed what appeared to be a body lying in the grass and a witness saying SFOR soldiers attacked the guard and that he did not resist. The Bosnian Serb claim could not be independently confirmed.

To: dumbmoney who wrote (1382)	4/3/1999 10:55:00 PM
From: Annette	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 17770

I think everyone who voted for Clinton should be sent over there to help pass out food and clothing.... Send them over.....

To: dumbmoney who wrote (1382)	4/4/1999 12:40:00 AM
From: Abner Hosmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Clinton has done the fascists in Russia a great favor. Nothing on earth could have given them more credibility amongst the Russian people than our military intervention in a dirty little ethnic war amongst the peoples of a sovereign nation. The only thing he has done is make it clear to a lot of other people's that they must unite in opposition to a superpower which would use force rather arbitrarily in a conflict in which it had so little stake. Now that they have screwed up so badly, Clinton and friends are going to look incredibly stupid as they belatedly scramble to assemble a ground force and try to decide if it is politically feasible to invade Yugoslavia, or even more stupidly, take Kosovo without taking out Belgrade. The alternative is to inflict suffering on the civilian Serbian population through an expansion of the air campaign against the civilian and military infrastructure. That's going to get pretty ugly, but it's an ugly little war, and for better or worse, we are irrevocably in it now.