Sunday May 7, 10:28 am Eastern Time
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Newsweek Newsweek Exclusive:
Suppressed Air Force Report on Kosovo Bombing Shows Little Damage
Done to Milosevic's Forces, Contrary to Early NATO and Pentagon
Claims
Serbs Faked Bridges, Artillery, Missile Launcher
NEW YORK, May 7 /PRNewswire/ --
A suppressed U.S. Air Force report obtained by Newsweek shows
that the number of targets verifiably destroyed by high-altitude
bombing in the Kosovo War was a tiny fraction of what top
military officers publicly claimed. The report shows there were
14 tanks destroyed, not 120; 18 armored personnel carriers, not
220; and 20 artillery pieces, not 450. And instead of the 744
``confirmed'' strikes by NATO pilots during the war, the Air
Force investigators, who spent weeks combing Kosovo, found
evidence of just 58 strikes. The damage report has been buried
by top military officers and Pentagon officials, who, in
interviews with Newsweek over the last three weeks, were still
glossing over or denying its significance.
Gen. Wesley Clark, the top NATO commander during the war, tried
- at least at first - to gain an accurate picture of the bombing,
Newsweek reports in the current issue. At the end of June, Clark
dispatched a team to do an on-the-ground survey in Kosovo. The
30 experts were known as the Munitions Effectiveness Assessment
Team, or MEAT.
The bombing, they discovered, was highly accurate against fixed
targets, like bunkers and bridges. ``But we were spoofed a
lot,'' said one team member. The Serbs protected one bridge from
the high-flying NATO bombers by constructing, 300 yards upstream,
a fake bridge made of polyethylene sheeting stretched over the
river. NATO ``destroyed'' the phony bridge many times.
In addition, artillery pieces were faked out of long black logs
stuck on old truck wheels. A two-thirds scale SA-9 antiaircraft
missile launcher was fabricated from the metal-lined paper used
to make European milk cartons. ``It would have looked perfect
from three miles up,'' said a MEAT analyst. The team found
dozens of burnt-out cars, buses and trucks - but very few tanks,
and no indications that hit tanks had been hauled away.
When Clark heard this news, he ordered the inspectors to walk the
terrain, report National Security Correspondent John Barry and
Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas in the May 15 issue (on
newsstands Monday, May 8). They came back with 2,600 photographs
and briefed the commanders. ``What do you mean we didn't hit
tanks?'' said Gen. Walter Begert, the Air Force deputy commander
in Europe. Clark said, ``This can't be. I don't believe it.''
The Air Force was ordered to prepare a new report and in a month,
Brig. Gen. John Corley was able to turn around a survey that
pleased Clark. It asserted that NATO had successfully struck 93
tanks, close to the 120 claimed by Gen. Shelton at the end of
the war, and 153 armored personnel carriers, not far off the 220
touted by Shelton. But Corley's team did not do any actual field
research. Rather, it looked for any support for pilots' claims.
``The methodology is rock solid,'' said Corley, who strongly
denied any attempt to obfuscate. ``Smoke and mirrors,'' is more
like it, according to a senior officer at NATO headquarters who
examined the data, Newsweek reports. NATO sources also say two
of Clark's officers cautioned him not to accept Corley's numbers.
The U.S. intelligence community, too, was doubtful. ``Nobody is
very keen to talk about this topic,'' a CIA official told
Newsweek. Over-rating the Kosovo bombing could lead to
fundamentally flawed strategies in future similar conflicts,
Newsweek notes.
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