A forward
Charles Brown
This coveted honor goes to Gen. Wesley K. Clark. From today's NY Times:
"Earlier Wednesday the NATO Commander, Gen. Wesley K. Clark, said he had
evidence the Serbs had shot up the refugees [traveling in a convoy]
after allied pilots attacked military vehicles near Djakovica, in
southwest Kosovo. But he did not produce the evidence, and later in
Washington, the Pentagon spokesman, Kenneth H. Bacon, said General Clark
no longer believed that was true and did not have supporting evidence."
And from today's LA Times:
"Last week, NATO initially blamed Yugoslavia for the bombing of a row of
houses in Kosovo's provincial capital, Pristina, that killed 10 Serbian
and ethnic Turkish civilians. Later, the alliance acknowledged that its
own bombs were to blame.
"On Monday, an allied strike on a railroad bridge left a passenger train
in flames, taking 14 civilian lives, according to Yugoslavia. The train
appeared on the bridge just after the attacking plane released its bomb,
according to film taken from the nose of the plane. With smoke obscuring
much of the scene, the plane circled back and bombed the other end of
the bridge just as the train slid across.*
"On Tuesday, NATO bombers struck targets in Pristina that apparently had
no military use: a graveyard, a bus station and a playground."
*Cf today's NY Times: "The single-mindedness of that strike, pursued
even after the pilot knew he had mistakenly hit the train with his first
missile, reflects a ruthlessness that seems inconsistent with antiseptic
notions of an air war."
Carl Remick
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