-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-05-02 22:15:36 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >And NATO may be using something even more powerful if all the lights did in fact >go blank in Belgrade today, as media reports indicated. Unless one believes they >simply knocked out the power plant?! And missile strikes coinciding with EARTHQUAKES?! (See below) NATO Attack Leaves Belgrade Stunned BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- NATO's war against Yugoslavia came to a quiet residential district of the capital Friday in an errant missile strike before dawn that injured at least nine people and left a jumble of rubble. Houses rocked from the explosion and a burst pipe sent a foot-high torrent of water pouring through the street in Belgrade's Vracar district. A car lay crushed under massive chunks of concrete as rescue workers picked through the wreckage. ``It felt like a hundred earthquakes,'' said Dragica Savic, 66. ``We could be dead even before trying to get to a shelter.'' A moderate earthquake did shake Belgrade several hours later, causing no casualties but further upsetting residents still jittery from the night's bombardment. The Serbian Seismological Institute said the epicenter of the 5.5-magnitude quake was 37 miles south of the capital. During the airstrikes, two houses were blown apart, one with a small corner cafe, and several other small one- and two-story homes were damaged. NATO said one of its missiles had veered off course during its fiercest assault ever on the Yugoslav capital overnight. The neighborhood is located less than a mile from the army and police headquarters downtown that were also hit and damaged. A policeman and two other people were killed and a total of 40 people were injured in the round of strikes on Belgrade, authorities said. Strikes in the smaller Yugoslav republic Montenegro and in Kosovo killed 13 people, including a pregnant woman, local media reports said. In the town of Trstenik, 84 miles southeast of Belgrade, a woman was killed and another 17 people were injured when NATO hit a bridge Friday, Yugoslav authorities reported. During more than five weeks of bombing, a residential neighborhood in Belgrade has been hit only once before, when NATO targeted one of President Slobodan Milosevic's homes elsewhere in the city. That April 22 strike demolished the house -- Milosevic was not there at the time -- and no other damage in the area was reported. Despite NATO's statement that one missile went awry, Vracar residents said there were two explosions several minutes apart. Mrs. Savic said when her neighbor prepared to evacuate after the first explosion, the second knocked him against a wall and fire from the blast singed his hair. ``I thought this was the safest area in Belgrade since there are no military or police targets anywhere close to here,'' she said. ``But nowhere is safe here anymore.'' An elderly man stumbled through the wreckage of one of the homes Friday afternoon, poking through kitchen pots and jars of pickled vegetables and jams miraculously untouched by the explosion. ``This is incredible. I couldn't expect this from our friends,'' Zivko Novakov told reporters during a visit to the neighborhood by civil rights activist Jesse Jackson. ``They (NATO) will say again, 'Sorry, it was a mistake.''' A couple of yards away stood Svetla Djeric, her eyes filled with tears. With her hand shaking, she held out something wrapped in a handkerchief. It was a piece of the missile that destroyed her house. ``Thank God we are alive,'' she whispered. ``I don't know how we managed to jump out of the windows, it was a nightmare.'' Bora Filipovic said he and his family, who live next to the destroyed cafe, were jarred awake by the first explosion and fled when their house was badly jolted by the second. ``We jumped out of the window. Me, my wife, my daughter and my son. My son broke his leg,'' he said. Yugoslav army spokesman Col. Milivoje Novakovic accused NATO of pursuing the ``pathological destruction of the Yugoslav capital.'' Soon after the blast, stunned residents held handkerchiefs over their noses to protect themselves against a thick, white cloud of dust that rose from the ruins. A child cried as her mother picked through rubble to find her clothes. People stumbled through the wreckage, some looking frozen with shock. Ambulances rushed to the scene. Across town, people on their way to work Friday gazed silently at the tangle of concrete and steel at Yugoslav Army headquarters while bulldozers cleared away the rubble. Women wept watching the scene. ``They are destroying us, one by one, piece by piece,'' said Jasminka Radovanovic, 30. ``What do they want from us?'' DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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