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Subject:
Serbian secret revealed
Posted by:
Pedro Kurdo
Posted on:
Sat May 22 13:37:28 1999 CET

Message:

Serbian forces have stunned the world with their determination to
defend Kosovo. Despite all predictions they resisted the technically
superior enemy for months. Many experts have tried to uncover the
secret of their survivability, with more or less success.
Unknown to the wider public, NATO troops have seized a document
that illustrates the thinking behind the military campaign in Kosovo,
which helped to keep the Serbian Army casualties to the absolute
minimum. This paper is a general order that has been issued by a
high-ranking Serbian officer. The text of the document follows:


Order to all Serbian troops in the region of Kosovo:

My soldiers, NATO planes mean us no harm. They are on a mission of
trying to solve the refugee problem. They have no easy task. Refugees
are scattered around and are getting increasingly sophisticated in
avoiding the aircraft. We have to assist NATO as much as possible by
flushing them out into the open, where the air forces can effectively deal
with them.
But this is war. Mistakes can happen. Despite all precautions NATO
has taken we can also be hit. To minimise our chances of receiving
serious injuries I request you to comply with the following nine points:

1) Do not visit or inhibit civilian buildings:
These are prime targets. An attack can happen at any time. You just
senselessly risk your life.

2) Do not dig in:
They have the technology to detect a dead body under the ground from
30km up. On the other hand, if on the ground, you are safe and sound.

3) Do not transport civilians or refugees, even in covered vehicles:
Their missiles are equipped with refugee seeking devices. When
associated with the target, you become one.

4) Do not travel in tractors, buses, animal-drawn or any non-military
vehicles:
They match the missile's target identification pattern.

5) Do not mix with civilians or refugees under any circumstances:
In a big crowd, your uniform ceases to be your guarantee of safety.

6) Do not apply for a Chinese visa:
If you really have to, do it by mail.

7) Do not travel to Bulgaria.

8) Do not try to make sense of the previous seven points:
The rest of the Planet tried and failed; you will only waste your valuable
time.


General Nebojsa Pavkovich (Commander of the 3rd Yugoslav Army)
In Pristina, April 1999.

(End of Serbian text)


Though the US military have been in possession of this document for a
while, they don't seem to have taken any steps to capitalise on the
knowledge gained.

The author of this article is no military expert by any means, but he has
to say that some of the solutions are almost too obvious to be ignored.
So I will give myself the freedom to propose improvements that can
have an immediate effect on the battlefield.

Firstly, flying upside down will give crews a much better view of the
battlefield. It is also a much healthier position to be in, especially in the
situation of repeated stress, according to many gurus of the new age
medicine.
Secondly, flight maps are overloaded with information, which increases
the risk of loosing the wider picture in an ocean of details. Painting
different countries on the maps in different colours will greatly enhance
the pilot's chances of hitting the right country.
Finally, each aircraft should be equipped with an underwater camera.
NATO can't always rely on the Italian fisherman for damage
assessment.

This letter has been sent to NATO headquarters. I hope that Dr Jamie
Shea will acknowledge my contribution on the next NATO press
conference.

Pedro Kurdo is the business correspondent for the Internet Express
News.
Copyright © 1999]]> Kosovo War daniela https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/3/#post-3934 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/3/#post-3933 Sat, 22 May 1999 16:45:00 +0000



Deserters may force Milosevic to change tack

BY TIM JUDAH


PRESIDENT Milosevic could have to change tactics and sue for peace if the reported unrest in Serb ranks follows the same pattern as the mutiny at the start of the war in Yugoslavia.
The news that Serb units have begun to desert the front in Kosovo and that there have been anti-government demonstrations in towns in central Serbia comes as no surprise. The real surprise is that it has taken so long.

When war broke out in Slovenia in June 1991, it took only a couple of days before coachloads of angry Serb mothers had descended on Ljubljana, the Slovene capital, to demand that the Yugoslav Army, then known as the JNA, return their conscript sons to them.

The Slovene war was over in ten days but the JNA and the Serbian authorities had learnt a valuable lesson. That was that terrified 18-year-old conscripts were reduced to jelly by a shooting war, were useless soldiers and that their deployment was not worth the discontent it caused back in Serbia.

So the strategy changed. The JNA mobilised men in their twenties and thirties who, it believed, would be more reliable. It was a policy that worked, up to a point. These men were generally happy to fight so long as there was no risk of actually being killed.

Throughout the summer of 1991 the JNA, using these reservists from the central Serbian heartlands, swept through Croatia, seizing one third of the republic. However, in the autumn, the Serbian campaign ground to a halt in the mud and gore of the siege of the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar. Here, for the first time, significant numbers of Serbs were killed.

At this point whole units began to desert the front and there were mutinies in barracks in central Serbia. In the most famous desertion of all a man drove his armoured personnel carrier away from the front line and down the motorway to Belgrade. Dodging the toll booths, he refused to halt until he got to the federal parliament building in the city centre.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of the capital's young men spent their nights moving from flat to flat to evade the military police. Large numbers emigrated.

General Veljko Kadijevic, the Yugoslav Minister of Defence, told Mr Milosevic that he either had to find more soldiers or change his strategy. Mr Milosevic did the latter. In weeks the war in Croatia was over and a UN peacekeeping force was being deployed.

No Serbs from Serbia, except for volunteer paramilitaries or professional soldiers or police, were sent to fight in Croatia or Bosnia again. Mr Milosevic, who draws most of his support from provincial Serbia, knew that he could not stay in power if he antagonised his political heartlands. From then on Croatian and Bosnian Serbs had to fight their own wars.

The problem with Kosovo is that it is part of Serbia, but so few Serbs still live there that the army has had to mobilise the reservists again.

The vast majority of Serbs regard Kosovo as holy land - but again, few are prepared to die for it.

One month ago I travelled on a 150-seat hydrofoil from Italy to Albania. On board were 23 Kosovo Albanians returning from London to fight.

On the same day a friend in Belgrade told me that talk about a possible Nato ground force made her nervous because it would mean that her husband and all his friends would have to go into hiding to avoid being drafted. History appears to be repeating itself.


Tim Judah is the author of The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, published by Yale University Press.]]> Kosovo War guidomasterofreality https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/3/#post-3933 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/3/#post-3932 Sat, 22 May 1999 16:02:00 +0000 The reason Maja was so concerned about the childrens body parts being sold is obvious. At some point in her childhood the Slovenian criminals, that were operating out of Albania, removed her brain and sold it to someone else. All that comes out of her mouth now is the propaganda that enters her ears and bounces around in her hollow head until it finds an exit hole.
Poor Maja,we should give her a virtual hug, because she is such a pitiful little thing. Mama Guido loves you to Maja baby. Here is your hug.....uummmmmmmmmmm!, is your hug.....uummmmmm, is your hug..... uummm, is your hu, is you, is.

WOW!! What an echo! It is really empty in there!]]> Kosovo War guidomasterofreality https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/3/#post-3932 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/3/#post-3931 Sat, 22 May 1999 15:23:00 +0000 Guido, you'll have to do better than to call
upon "Kosovapress" with their fantasy stories.

**** You say something about Quido, while you come with a outdated story from october 98 about baby organ smuggle....
Let me tell you something child stories about human body parts smuggle were there already in 1986. Another VERY inportant detail it happens in more countries then you can imagine.

Then again 1986 is a very long time ago, and you were still playing in the schoolyard, so it was of no concearn to you

Emina.

Ps Good job quido.keep it comin!]]> Kosovo War emina https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/3/#post-3931 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3930 Sat, 22 May 1999 15:12:00 +0000 KOSOVO "FREEDOM FIGHTERS" FINANCED BY ORGANISED CRIME

**** Did not see the need to put the whole artical there.As it stands above. Just a comment.

Maja once said if you want independence fight for it.WEll with the money of a these sympathing people They(UCK) can do that excately.

Emina.]]> Kosovo War emina https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3930 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3929 Sat, 22 May 1999 02:38:00 +0000 Kosovo War maja https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3929 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3928 Sat, 22 May 1999 01:46:00 +0000 Kosovo War nick https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3928 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3927 Sat, 22 May 1999 00:46:00 +0000 Anyway, I have come up with a great solution to this war, but seems like Albright ( who of course was always right before ) has better ideas.]]> Kosovo War maja https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3927 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3926 Sat, 22 May 1999 00:19:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/korisa052199.htm

NATO Won't Release Korisa Evidence

By Steven Pearlstein
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, May 21, 1999; Page A26

BRUSSELS, May 20 – When
NATO precision-guided bombs
killed scores of ethnic Albanians in
the Kosovo town of Korisa,
alliance spokesmen blamed the
deaths on Yugoslav authorities,
claiming they had used the refugees
as "human shields" by forcing them
to spend the night next to a military command post and artillery bunker.

But a week after the embarrassing mishap, NATO's military command
announced today that it will not release surveillance photographs and
summaries of intercepted radio transmissions to back up its claim that the
site was a "legitimate military target."

"Everything that's going to be released on that has been released," said
Capt. Steven Warren, a spokesman for Gen. Wesley K. Clark, NATO's
military commander.

The Yugoslav government said 87 refugees were killed, making the attack
the deadliest NATO assault of the war in civilian casualties. The victims
were part of a group of several hundred refugees who had been hiding in
the Kosovo hills for 10 days.

After the bombing, several members of the group said they had been
directed by Serbian police to spend the night at an agricultural
cooperative. Contrary to the assertion of military spokesmen here and at
the Pentagon, however, the refugees said they saw no signs that the
compound was being used as a local military or police command center.
Nor did they report seeing any of the artillery pieces that NATO claimed
were destroyed in the attack.

A Washington Post reporter who visited the scene and talked to survivors
a day after the attack also reported seeing no evidence of a recent military
presence or bombed military equipment.

NATO spokesmen have suggested Yugoslav authorities removed military
equipment from the scene before Western reporters arrived.

© Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company]]> Kosovo War daniela https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3926 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3925 Fri, 21 May 1999 23:58:00 +0000 What are these things that I can see
Each night when I come home from school
When mama calls me in for tea
On every night a baby dies
And every night a mama cries
What makes those men do what they do
To make that person black and blue

Grandpa says they're happy now
They sit with God in paradise
With angels wings and still somehow
It makes me feel
Like ice

Tell me there's a heaven
Tell me that it's true
Tell me there's a reason
Why I'm seeing what I do
Tell me there's a Heaven
Where all those people go
Tell me that they're happy now
Papa tell me that it's so

So do I tell her that it's true
That there's a place for me and you
Where hungry children smile and say
We wouldn't have no other way
That every painful crack of bone
Is a step along the way
That every wrong done is a game plan
To that great and joyful day
And I'm looking at the father and the son
And I'm looking at the mother and the daughter
And I'm watching them in tears of pain
And I'm watching them suffer
Don't tell that little girl
Tell me

Tell me there's a heaven
Tell me that it's true
Tell me there's a reason
Why I'm seeing what I do
Tell me there's a Heaven
Where all those people go
Tell me that they're happy now
Papa tell me that it's so

Chris Rea]]> Kosovo War nick https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-may-22-1999/paged/2/#post-3925