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To: Stormweaver who wrote (5067)	4/22/1999 8:07:00 PM
From: nuke44	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 17770

Come on James, if you're going to keep posting here, why not do it honestly. It would be easier to stomach than your hypocritical rantings about how evil NATO is and how misunderstood the poor Serbs are. To hear you tell it, the Serb military was just trying to deliver Christmas gifts and candy to widows and orphans in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo when they inadvertently, accidentally, possibly, might have killed a few hundred thousand people in the process. And even if they did, it was all because they knew years in advance that the criminal psychopaths in NATO were going to unjustly attack their SOVERIEGN, HOLY (can you say halleleujah, brother?) soil , so they were just killing those folks to spare them the trauma of listening to evil NATO bombs falling in the distance. You're of crap. At least have the balls to say, "I want the Serbs to win, no matter what crimes they commit in the process. I could give a rat's ass about those goddamn ragheads and Croats. They deserve to die. I hate NATO for stopping their well deserved ethnic cleansing. We should leave them to it",and spare us your biased rhetoric and twisted logic. You want to be reimbursed for the costs of the war in Yugoslavia? Fine, send a bill to Milosevic. This whole thing's on him.

To: Stormweaver who wrote (5067)	4/22/1999 8:32:00 PM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

James, In some ways, Milosevic is getting a good deal for his country. We go in and bomb all these old antiquated factories, oil refineries, and bridges. Then after he signs a peace deal, all these nations chip in money to rebuild his country with state of the art facilities. Not bad. If it wasn't for World War II do you think the Germans and Japanese would be in as good a shape as they are today? -john

To: Stormweaver who wrote (5067)	4/22/1999 10:01:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

Now this it...American Public would completely loose interest in a war.... WRAPUP-NATO blasts Serbian television off the air 09:33 p.m Apr 22, 1999 Eastern By Philippa Fletcher BELGRADE, April 23 (Reuters) - NATO air strikes blasted Serbian state television off the air on Friday, just hours after Belgrade offered a peace proposal to allow an ''international presence'' in war-torn Kosovo under U.N. auspices. Belgrade residents reported hearing a ''huge explosion'' at 2:04 a.m. (0004 GMT) and said NATO had hit the RTS television building, taking all channels off the air. ''The RTS building has been hit,'' said one witness. ''There is smoke everywhere and there are people inside the building.'' Dragan Covic, head of Belgrade's Civil Defence, told Belgrade television station Studio B, situated elsewhere in the capital, that there were injured people. ''We are working to save anyone we can,'' he said. Witnesses said the newer of two RTS buildings was hit. They added there were no flames but thick smoke was billowing from the premises. RTS was showing a re-run of an interview by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with a U.S. television station when screens went dead. NATO commanders warned earlier this month that they considered the television a legitimate target in their air strike campaign, now almost a month old. They accused it of broadcasting hatred and lies. It was the third night running that NATO had struck at a nerve centre of Serb power. On Thursday it bombed a Milosevic residence -- unoccupied at the time -- and on Wednesday it destroyed the headquarters of his Serbian Socialist Party. Friday's attack was an uncompromising response to Milosevic's apparent peace feeler on Thursday evening, on the eve of a NATO summit in Washington. Russian peace envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin was quoted as saying after talks in Belgrade that a document he agreed with Milosevic provided for ''an international presence in Kosovo under the United Nations auspices and with Russia's participation.'' ''What kind of international forces they will be or from which countries -- this is yet to be discussed. But the main thing is that Russia take part,'' Russia's Itar Tass news agency quoted Chernomyrdin, a former prime minister, as saying. CNN later quoted Yugoslav officials as saying no NATO countries, except possibly Greece, would be allowed to contribute to the presence, which would be unarmed. Milosevic has so far refused to accept foreign troops in Kosovo. But NATO has said an armed force is essential to protect hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians made homeless by Serb forces, and has insisted the alliance provide the core of it. In Washington, U.S. President Bill Clinton gave the offer a guarded welcome. ''If there is an offer for a genuine security force, that's the first time Mr. Milosevic has done that, and that represents I suppose some step forward,'' Clinton said, appearing at the White House with NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana. But other U.S. officials expressed deep scepticism of the offer, saying it would be unacceptable if Milosevic tried to exclude troops from NATO countries. A British official said the Yugoslav offer looked inadequate and Germany said it was too soon to judge it. But with NATO due to start its 50th anniversary summit later on Friday, Belgrade's reported offer could appeal to some alliance members, such as Greece, which have been uneasy about the bombing and would like a diplomatic way out. In Belgrade, a source close to Milosevic declined to comment on whether an international presence meant foreign troops. ''Now everything depends on the Western reaction,'' the source said. Although NATO has told its military commanders to review plans for the possible use of ground forces to stop the mayhem in Kosovo, Clinton made clear that move did not foreshadow a decision to launch a land war. He said ''a vigorous prosecution of the air campaign, an intensification of economic pressures along with our continuing diplomatic efforts, I believe, is the correct strategy.'' U.S. Defence Department spokesman Kenneth Bacon said NATO planners would study the requirements for inserting troops in both a ''permissive'' and a ''non-permissive environment.'' It was the first time the United States had publicly acknowledged NATO may have to send in combat forces without an agreement with Yugoslavia. In the continuing air war, Belgrade residents reported that, apart from Serbian television, other areas of the city hit included the industrial suburbs of Pancevo, Rakovica and the military base of Bajnica. Earlier, the official Tanjug news agency reported attacks on two television transmitters in central Serbia and a strike on the centre of Uzice, which damaged a post office building, neighbouring banks and residential buildings. In Brussels, EU officials said the European Union was rushing through a ban on the shipment of oil to Yugoslavia and the measure could take effect from the middle of next week. In Macedonia, U.N. relief workers reached the mountain village of Malina on Thursday where several thousand Kosovo refugees had been stranded in freezing temperatures while Macedonian police turned back truckloads of aid. Altogether, some 600,000 ethnic Albanian refugees have fled into Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro, and a further 800,000 are reported homeless inside Kosovo. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.