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To: James R. Barrett who wrote (9548)	5/22/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: Milk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Key KLA Base Hit by NATO: Saturday May 22 12:29 PM ET Key KLA Base Hit In NATO Intelligence Error By Douglas Hamilton BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) - NATO warplanes mistakenly attacked a base captured by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) over a month ago, thinking it was still in the hands of the Yugoslav Army, an alliance spokesman said Saturday. ''The target which was struck by NATO was done so on the assumption that it was still in the hands of the Yugoslav Army. And subsequently it appears to have been taken over by the KLA,'' NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said. At least one KLA guerrilla was confirmed killed and 15 wounded in Friday's attack. Unconfirmed reports from Kukes in Albania quoted KLA fighters as saying seven had died and 25 were injured. The mountainside base at Kosare lies about 10 (six miles) into western Kosovo on a road leading from the northern Albanian town of Bajram Curri. In a rare defeat over Yugoslav forces, KLA guerrillas opened the trail and captured Kosare barracks on April 9 after three weeks of fighting. It gave the KLA 3rd Operations Group a vital logistics bridgehead to the front at Batusha which they hope to extend in a salient to the hillfoot town of Junik, and on into central Kosovo to link up with hard-pressed guerrilla enclaves. The KLA has have escorted parties of Western reporters to the Kosare barracks since early May and Western television crews have filmed fighters assembling, resting and cooking at the base, within the sound of Serb gunfire in the valley. Shea identified the location as ''a border command post that was until very recently in the hands of the Yugoslav army.'' ''If we had known, in a very dynamic situation -- particularly where the KLA is extremely active in that part -- that it had been captured by the KLA then it would have been taken off the target list,'' Shea said. Yugoslav Army (VJ) forces have been unable despite continued attacks to shut down the guerrilla trail, which can accommodate heavy trucks carrying weapons, ammunition and supplies. Reporters who visited Kosare barracks in early May and again last week found ethnic Albanian volunteers speaking English, French, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish. One, called Musa, was carpet-cleaner from The Bronx. A NATO briefing paper Saturday identified the target as ''Kosani'' rather than ''Kosare.'' This was a spelling error. A television producer who recently visited Kosare base and who saw KLA video of the bomb-blasted building Saturday confirmed that they were one and the same place. In Tirana, wounded KLA guerrillas brought to a Tirana hospital Friday reported being attacked from the air. ''The KLA are claiming there was an air attack but they don't know who did it,'' said a military source. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Tirana later said one KLA guerrilla had died and 15 were wounded. OSCE monitors said the body of the KLA fighter and the wounded were brought into Bajram Curri. The injured, nine of them on stretchers, were then flown by two Albanian helicopters to Tirana's military hospital. The OSCE also said there was continued heavy fighting on the Kosovo side of the Yugoslav-Albania border Friday near the Kosare barracks.

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (9548)	5/22/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

That's interesting James, didnt read that article. I'll have to look it up and see what the author's sources are and do some reading. It wouldnt be all that surprising to learn that some isolated groups reached north america before the paleoindian migrations across the Bering land bridge, the Australian aborigines spanned the gulf between SE Asia and Australia long before those migrations, so it may have been possible, although Im not sure how probable. Ive never heard anything about Europeans, though, so it would be interesting to see what the author had to say and where he got his information. There is a long standing mystery about north american populations. There is a site at the very tip of S. America which has been carbon dated to around 12000 years ago, a log constructed set of buildings. Thats a real puzzle in archaeology, because it is a mystery how peoples crossing the Bering straits 10-13000 years ago could have covered such distance in such a short time, and for what motivation. For a long time that site was disputed, but its been accepted as accurate dating. Maybe there was a wave before the paleoindians, its a hot topic of debate.