-Caveat Lector- NATO: "BAD SHOTS" -- OR MORE SINISTER? ====================================== (CNNS, 05/09/99) -- Incomprehensible to many will be the thought that NATO is purposefully targeting civilians in Yugoslavia with its bombs and missiles. Because most people are basically good, they cannot fathom the possibility of such evil. But it increasingly appears that NATO's new strategy is to attack civilians and non-military targets as a method of weakening Serb morale and thereby achieving victory. A precedent for such a strategy was set in World War 2, when the Allies, through analysis and projection, arrived at precise figures on how many Germans rendered homeless would result in the German people no longer supporting Hitler and the Nazis. An exact figure was determined: if a certain percentage of civilian housing was destroyed, Germany would quickly lose the war. Consequent to their statistical analysis, the Allies began bombing German civilian housing. (A possibly analagous situation is economic understanding that, so long as a certain percentage of Americans are benefiting from the "good economy," they will not care about whatever horrible things their leaders do. "It's the economy, stupid," said Bill Clinton.) The Serb people have rallied around Slobodan Milosevic and his government, consequent to the initial start of NATO hostilities on March 24, 1999. Since then, NATO has recently begun to escalate their air attacks. Hitting only military targets in Yugoslavia hadn't been succeeding. NATO's *apparent* solution to the dilemma has been to hike their bombing of military targets. But as in World War 2, has a high-level decision been reached that, to win, NATO must attack civilians and civilian-related targets? A decision to more directly affect civilians through its bombing campaign is shown by recent NATO attacks on the Radio-TV Serbia (RTS) building and on the Yugoslav electric supply. "We can turn off your lights at any time," exulted NATO after a high-tech bomb did just that. How military of a target are the RTS building and a Serb power plant? Recent news items suggest that, far from suddenly becoming extremely "bad shots," NATO has implemented a new, hidden strategy, in which the Yugoslav civilian population has become *intentional* targets, both directly and indirectly: ** NATO pooh-poohed Yugoslavia's alleged interception of radio communication between a NATO pilot and his guiding AWACS controller. NATO claimed the tape of the communication was doctored. What if NATO is lying? What if the purported radio interception is accurate? Here is a partial transcript: F-16 pilot: Charlie Bravo to Mother. I maintain 3,000 feet. A column of cars, some tractors are below me. What is it? Request instructions. AWACS: Mother to Charlie Bravo. Do you see tanks? Repeat, where are tanks? F-16 pilot: Charlie Bravo to Mother. I see tractors. I hope Reds have not camouflaged tanks into tractors. AWACS: Mother to Charlie Bravo. What kind of a strange convoy? What civilians? Hell. It's all Serbian doing. Destroy the target! F-16 pilot: Charlie Bravo to Mother. What shall I destroy, tractors, ordinary cars? Repeat, I see no tanks. Request further instructions. AWACS: Mother to Charlie Bravo. It is a military target. Absolutely legitimate military target. Destroy the target! Repeat, destroy the target! F-16 pilot: Charlie Bravo to Mother. Understood. Launching! But the target, it turned out, was not military. At least 75 civilians were killed. [1] ** On May 7th, NATO dropped a "cluster bomb" over Nis, a city with a large civilian population. Cluster bombs are *not* precision weapons. They explode in the air and scatter hundreds of little bombs over a wide area. The May 7th cluster bomb targeted an area of Nis where there are no Serb military or police facilities. At least 11 civilians were killed and several dozens were wounded, after the cluster bomb detonated over the "Big Market" area of Nis, where people do their shopping. [2] ** On May 5th, a convoy of vehicles from Greece was carrying humanitarian supplies into Yugoslavia. The convoy was clearly marked with a "Doctors of the World" logo. NATO had also been informed in advance that the humanitarian convoy would be travelling through the region. Nonetheless, the convoy was attacked by a NATO missile. Subsequent to the attack, Greek newspapers quoted Dr. Lakis Nikolau, who was travelling with the convoy, as follows: "That what happened has been planned and designed by NATO in advance, something like a premeditated murder. There is no other explanation. They knew who we were, where we were going and why, because they had been informed in time. Therefore, there is no justification." [3] ** Indirectly targeting civilians in Yugoslavia have been "soft bombs," which destroy energy supplies. More ominously, NATO has been bombing oil facilities and chemical industries. While the destruction of oil and chemical plants can perhaps be justified as military targets, there is nevertheless a consequently developing ecological catastrophe sure to harm civilians as well. General Stanislaw Petrow of the Russian Ministry of Defense warns of "great danger" which threatens "oil spills in the Danube river, floating through the European countries" and leading to a "great ecological catastrophe." The bombing of chemical plants, causing release of contaminants into the atmosphere, raises the specter of "'the cancer disease in the territories of Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary and Italy,' that with dioxides endanger the soil and the drinking-water facilities, for a long time, concludes the Russian general." [4] ** Reports that NATO has bombed civilian targets do not become "true" for many Americans unless and until NATO says so. In the cases of the cluster bombing of Nis and the bombing of tractors by the F-16 pilot, NATO grudgingly will admit it happened, but never admits the attacks are done purposefully, due to implementation of a new, escalated, secret, "war on civilians" policy. In the case of the dropping of a non-precision cluster bomb on a busload of civilians on May 3rd, it is not known by this news service whether NATO has confirmed or denied the story. But the Tanjug News Wire reports that "Twenty civilians died and at least 43 were wounded when the NATO aggressor dropped cluster bombs into a bus full of children, women and old people of all nationalities, near Savine Vode on the Pec-Kula-Rozaje road." [5] Bear in mind that at the start of hostilities, reports of civilian casualties were minimal. But in the past two weeks or so, a sudden surge in civilian casualties has been occuring. Has NATO just coincidentally and abruptly become a very poor shot? Or is there some new, secret policy which they are not mentioning? ---------------------------<< Notes >>--------------------------- [1] "F-16 pilot: What should I destroy? Tractors?" www.serbia-info.com/news 4/19/99 [2] "Civilian victims of NATO attack - Nis." Tanjug News Wire, 5/7/99. [3] "Attack on aid convoy - premeditated murder." Tanjug News Wire, 5/7/99. [4] "Petrow: Using 'soft bombs' provokes ecological consequence." www.serbia-info.com/news 5/6/99 [5] "Twenty civilians killed." Tanjug News Wire, 5/3/99. -- CNNS (Conspiracy Nation News Service) is an INDEPENDENT news outlet, not owned by anyone. (But of course, we would say that, wouldn't we?) BEWARE THE CFR! BEWARE THE CIA! BEWARE THE KNIGHTS! http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cnns.html DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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