Hilsen
Kai Braathen
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>To: gregor@myhouse.com (Hodgepodge News)
>Subject: Kosovo News 4/6/99
>Date: tir 6. apr 1999 15:29
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>Latest Developments in Kosovo
>
> April 6, 1999 New York Times
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Kosovo-Developments.html
>
> Latest developments related to Kosovo: -- NATO airstrikes aim to cut the
>Yugoslav military's lines of supply and transport, blasting at roads,
>bridges, airports, fuel depots and command centers. The alliance says it is
>targeting Serb forces accused of terrorizing ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a
>province in Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic.
>
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>
> Kosovo Crisis Home Page
>
> April 6, 1999 Canoe (Canadian) News
> http://www.canoe.com/CNEWSKosovo/home.html
>
> Kosovo Historic Background
> http://admdis01nt.ndhq.dnd.ca/menu/Echo/index_e.htm
>
> Airlift begins; refugee workers see new border crisis
> http://www.canoe.com/CNEWSKosovo/990406_kosovo2.html
>
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>
> Yugoslav military forces
> Facts and figures on Yugoslav military forces.
>
> April 6, 1999 Canoe (Canadian) News
> http://www.canoe.com/CNEWSKosovo/forces_yugoslavia.html
>
> AIR FORCES:
>
> 15,000 personnel.
>
>Fifteen top-of-the-line MiG-29s and a nominal strength of about 50 obsolete
>MiG-21 interceptors. Many of the latter reportedly have been cannibalized
>for spare parts.
>
> About 90 light ground-attack jets.
>
> About 60 surface-to-air missile batteries, consisting mostly of
>Soviet-built, Vietnam-era SA-2s and SA-3s. Concentrated around Belgrade,
>well-known to allied pilots.
>
> Several radar-guided mobile batteries of SA-6, a missile recently upgraded
>using Russian-supplied advanced equipment. Vulnerable to sophisticated
>electronic jamming procedures by allied air forces.
>
> SA-7, 16 and 18 portable systems, shoulder-launched missiles.
>
> ARMY:
>
> About 85,000 troops, mostly poorly trained conscripts, and possibly
>200,000 reservists. Morale is said to be low, and a call-up of reservists
>proved problematic, with hundreds of reservists protesting in several
>southern cities, and Montenegro actively working against the call-up. In
>some areas, only one in 10 reservists have reported for duty.
>
> Yugoslavia has deployed 27,000 troops in Kosovo, plus 8,000 near the
>Kosovo border, with 300 tanks. Also deployed are 16,500 police, of which
>6,500 special combat police forces.
>
> About 1,270 battle tanks, many in storage or no longer serviceable. About
>200 are Second World War-vintage Soviet T-34 tanks; about 750 are obsolete
>T-55s dating back to the 1950s. About 300 modern, Yugoslav-built versions
>of the Soviet T-72, but lacking modern features used by Western tanks, such
>as reactive armour or sophisticated fire control and communications gear.
>The T-72 fared poorly when used by the Iraqis against coalition forces in
>the Persian Gulf War.
>
> M-80 Armoured Fighting Vehicle, a copy of the Russian BMP-1 AFV.
>
> BOV-M APC, a wheeled reconnaissance vehicle.
>
> BOV-3, self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, used on the ground effectively.
>
> PRAGA, armoured truck with 30-mm anti-aircraft cannon, used to great
>effect against houses and infantry.
>
> NAVY:
>
> About 15,000 personnel.
>
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>
>NATO forces available for air strikes on Yugoslavia
>
>April 6, 1999 Canoe (Canadian) News
>http://www.canoe.com/CNEWSKosovo/forces_nato.html
>
>Facts and figures on NATO forces available for air strikes on Yugoslavia.
>
>GROUND TROOPS:
>
>Just under 12,000 NATO troops in Macedonia, most of whom would have been
>part of a 28,000-strong force to ensure a peace agreement in Kosovo if it
>had been signed by all parties.
>
> AIR FORCES:
>
> About 430 allied aircraft, 200 of them from the United States. Most based
>at Aviano Air Base and Cervia in northern Italy, others in Germany and
>England. Six Canadian CF-18 fighter-bombers are stationed in Aviano.
>
> Other air forces include:
>
> F-16s from several countries; the L-1011, three E3Ds -- part of an
>airborne early warning system -- and eight Harrier GR7s, short-takeoff,
>vertical-landing aircraft armed with Paveway II laser-guided bombs, from
>Britain; Tornados from Germany; Tornados, the AMX and the F104 from Italy;
>EF-18s and KIC-130 from Spain; Jaguars, the Mirage 2000C, 2000D, E3-F, and
>C-135 from France; the KDC-10 from the Netherlands; B-52s, F-117A Nighthawk
>stealth fighter-bombers, F-15E strike planes, F-16CJ jets armed with
>anti-radar missiles, and F-16CGs carrying precision-guided munitions for
>ground-attack missions from the United States.
>
> NAVAL FORCES:
>
> A fleet of U.S. and allied ships, including four U.S. navy surface ships
>and two attack submarines capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles in the
>Adriatic Sea, and a British submarine with cruise missiles.
>
> There are several thousand sailors and marines on the U.S. navy ships alone.
>
> Also included in the naval forces is the EA-6B Prowler, an electronic
>warfare plane designed to jam enemy radar and communications to protect
>allied fighter aircraft.
>
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>
>Clinton Toughens Yugoslavia Stance
>
>April 6, 1999 New York Times
>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-US-Kosovo.html
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) -- While offering Kosovo refugees temporary shelter, the
>Clinton administration is toughening terms for a settlement for Yugoslav
>President Slobodan Milosevic, demanding that he go well beyond a simple
>peace offering for Kosovo.
>
>``A commitment to cease killing and a Kosovo denied its freedom and devoid
>of its people is not acceptable,'' President Clinton said Monday, declaring
>that NATO would prevail in an escalating battle with the Yugoslav leader.
>
>Clinton charted a course, backed by increased firepower, to expel
>Milosevic's forces from the Serbian province of Kosovo, return hundreds of
>thousands of ethnic Albanians to their homes and allow NATO troops in to
>ensure self-government for the Kosovars.
>
>Clinton promised an ``undiminished, unceasing and unrelenting'' air
>campaign until Milosevic reverses a campaign that has forced NATO into the
>position of seeking to return hundreds of thousands of refugees to their
>homes rather than the original goal of keeping more from being pushed out....
>
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>
>U.S. Vows Milosevic Won't Get Easy Peace
>
> April 6, 1999 Reuters, By Charles Aldinger
> http://www.webcrawler.com/news/r/990406/00/news-yugoslavia-usa
>
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>
>Refugee Issues Not New to Clinton
>
>April 6, 1999 New York Times
>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Clinton-Refugees.html
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) -- As President Clinton steps up the U.S. response to the
>humanitarian crisis in Kosovo, his own history with the touchy issue of
>political refugees is likely to be a factor in his decision making.
>
>Clinton has blamed his re-election loss in the 1980 Arkansas governor's
>race in part on riots among Cuban exiles who ended up at a federal facility
>in Arkansas.
>
>As president in 1994, he had 14,000 Haitian refugees housed at the U.S.
>military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- a location that limited domestic
>concerns.
>
>But he caused consternation in Florida that same year by his handling of a
>mass exodus of Cuban refugees touched off by Cuba's Fidel Castro.
>
>Castro, like Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is doing now by forcibly
>removing ethnic Albanians from Kosovo province, had found a way to make
>citizens he didn't like someone else's problem -- particularly a U.S.
>president.
>
>The 20,000 Kosovo refugees that the United States has agreed to shelter
>temporarily likely will be sent to Guantanamo too, although Clinton
>administration officials delayed a final decision Monday while they sought
>assurances that European countries were fully engaged in the relief effort....
>
> Clinton announced a toll-free 1-800 telephone number that people can call
>to donate money for ethnic Albanians expelled from Kosovo.
>
> The president asked for donations to nongovernmental groups in the area
>trying to stanch the humanitarian crisis. He directed potential donors to a
>toll-free number: 1-800-USAID-RELIEF. Officials said more lines would be
>installed in the coming days to cope with a flood of calls that jammed
>circuits.
>
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>
>Clinton finds he, too, is under attack
>
>April 6, 1999 by Mimi Hall and Susan Page, USA TODAY
>http://usatoday.com/news/index/kosovo/koso208.htm
>
>WASHINGTON - Members of Congress are second-guessing the Kosovo strategy
>while TV talking heads launch round-the-clock critiques.
>
>And now the sniping isn't coming just from the sidelines.
>
>President Clinton's credibility as commander in chief is being undermined
>from within by military leaders who are making it known that they have deep
>reservations..... Others say if Clinton is not yet concerned about critics,
>he ought to be.
>
> "It's in striking contrast with Vietnam and LBJ, where there was a lot of
>internal questioning about the policy," says Walter Dean Burnham, a
>professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. "But there
>was considerable establishment support at all levels in public. That
>remained the case all the way until the Tet offensive blew everything
>sky-high. That was three years into the war. This is one week into the war.
>That should tell you something about the extraordinary weakness of the
>position President Clinton finds himself in."
>
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>
>Pilot Rcalls Rescue in Yugoslavia
>
>April 6, 1999 New York Times, Associated Press
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Kosovo-Downed-Pilot.html
>
>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The pilot of the U.S. stealth fighter downed in
>Yugoslavia last month said he started thinking about surviving behind enemy
>lines as soon as he began parachuting to earth.... The F-117A went down
>near Budjenovci, 35 miles northwest of the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade.
>
>The pilot said he was in radio contact with NATO forces as he descended,
>looking for landmarks and hiding places. He landed in a freshly plowed
>field 50 yards from a road and rail intersection.
>
>The pilot, who suffered only cuts and bruises in the jump, said he
>immediately buried a life raft and other survival equipment.
>He hid in a shallow culvert about 200 yards from where he had landed. Over
>the next several hours, he saw flashing headlights, heard barking dogs and
>felt anxiety. At one point, a search dog came within 30 feet of him.
>
>He hoped, but did not know, that a rescue operation was under way....
>
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>
>U.S. Seeks Donations for Kosovo Aid
>
>April 6, 1999 New York Times
>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/AP-Clinton-Refugees.html
>
>WASHINGTON -- Appealing directly to Americans to help the victims of
>Slobodan Milosevic's ``expulsion policy,'' President Clinton announced a
>toll-free 1-800 telephone number Monday that people can call to donate
>money for ethnic Albanians expelled from Kosovo.
>
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>
>About Yugoslavia:
>
>USA Today April 6, 1999 "Crisis in Kosovo"
>http://usatoday.com/news/index/kosovo/koso000.htm
>...
>Federation of American Scientists 'Target Kosovo'
>http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/kosovo.htm
>
>Federal Rep. of Yugoslavia Web site
>http://www.gov.yu/
>
>Kosovo Crisis Center (pro-KLA site)
>http://www.alb-net.com/index.htm
>
>Map of Yugoslavia
>http://www.gov.yu/map.html
>
>Travel warning to Serbia- Montenegro
>http://travel.state.gov/serbia_warning.html
>
>CIA Fact Book entry on Serbia-Montenegro
>http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/sr.html
>
>Background on Rambouillet Accords (U.S. State Department)
>http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/fs_990301_rambouillet.html
>
>U.N. Security Council Resolution 1199
>http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/un_980923_res_kosovo.html
>
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