NATO admits to bombing Albanian Refugees...greenspun.com : LUSENET : TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) : One Thread |
Secretary Cohen describes the mistake as tragic. I read the transcript of the pilot's description of events. It is on tampabayonline.com (AP Breaking News). This is my opinion only:1. The Albanians were setting fire to their homes as they were leaving the region to keep the Serbs from getting anything useful
and/or
2. The Albanians were setting fire to their homes so that the Serbs would get the blame and NATO would keep bombing the crap out of them.
This is the only thing that makes sense when you read the pilot's transcript. If this is being discussed on another thread, please forgive me.
-- Sharon (sking@drought-ridden.com), April 15, 1999
Shit happens. Start a war, innocent people die. Don't want to kill people, don't start a war. So, you know, it was inevitable.The official military response to this should have been simply:
Whoops!
PJ in TX
-- PJ Gaenir (fire@firedocs.com), April 15, 1999.
WH officials originally denied that NATO did it, and that it was a Serbian MIG that killed the refugees, in order to EMBARRASS NATO.Lots of folks started wondering about that because didn't Clinton announce last week that we crippled their air force? And even if Milo was able to get a MIG in the air, where the hell was our fighter umbrella to clear the skies??? No reports of any air-to-air engagements yesterday, so it had to be a bogus story if you follow the logic.
Now they admit the fact they DID do it because the folk weren't buying it, and the pilot gave an account of the "accident".
Just heard there's another "collateral damage" incident in a town outside of Pristina.
Just wait until China and the Russkies start wasting our forces over there.
We haven't seen anything yet.
-- INVAR (gundark@sw.net), April 15, 1999.