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Nga Lufta ne Kosove
bombardimet e NATO ne serbi
lajmet e Shteteve Perendimore
bombardimet e NATO ne serbi
lajmet e Shteteve Perendimore
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00:00...handles no more than 20 takeoffs and landings a day.
00:03But the Kosovo crisis has changed all of that.
00:07With the help of forklifts and other specialist vehicles,
00:11French soldiers ensure that the aid is unloaded as quickly as possible.
00:16They are trying to guarantee short turnaround times
00:19to make room for subsequent flights.
00:21We had almost 9 tons of tents and blankets in today's shipment.
00:25Where does it all come from?
00:27We picked it up in Cologne, we flew there this morning and then came down here.
00:32One of the German flights included several pallets laden with baby food.
00:37Hundreds of babies and young children in the refugee camps
00:40desperately need special dried milk and ready meals.
00:44SA-6 to the west of Belgrade.
00:57The second clip shows a similar attack
01:08against an SA-6 command vehicle in the same area.
01:12The commandment is asses in the same area.
01:26Wow.
01:26The room of Pristina.
01:29It's an attack on the 21st.
01:33Krone 15
01:47Sprek
01:49IE3
01:50Krone 15
01:51Cross
01:52naĆĄ Shqar
01:52es but27
01:54konsu
01:57Smë 10
01:59small
02:02zes
02:03nja njbateHu Camp Exc
02:21të njbue njbëa nwerpër
02:25gdë §r g patrimana
02:33Rhe eidos nĂ«ifaisĂ« njivĂ« dudaljĂ« íŽë 15 ehtĂ«m,
02:36njivës dërësitnë.
02:37Njivësio njivë, njivësio njivë dispoj njivë wasibhë të tëm mell më knjivës.
02:41Njivësio ampoj njivë.
02:44Njivësio njivë njivësi njivësio shburnh tërësjështjë.
02:48Njivësio njivësio charitës kërët kërë eidjë njivësio.
02:55Njivësio e për sërështjë bërën njivësioj tërështjë.
03:03kakyme Minister ESDAPTĂN.
03:13Alomsai I Essebol su dadurch PY ŃĐżinja S Panel,
03:25vaq ndo uro tpsil kqousik nes nes dhtehoj.
03:32beskunu nimeni njibujem etsak umso njibujem je
03:34we api mizdi ea on neni appen dana
03:34kami i Britney aprendizse
03:36pel casteve
03:38varsa mentie taj ees posmertë
03:41taj kon ze dhe ndqem taj njubu
03:41ki po mai shona i pei, njubuk sikmata
03:42i taj keso nd dhe kwa taj njubu
03:46KĂ«ndro taj njubu
03:53ka kan taj mćko
03:54oriented u seemed odhla
03:54jarën o taj nja
03:57Trrus
03:57leks
04:00njubushu
04:02egin anĂ«zulate tĐșĐČ freme eto
04:07David Crabtree bwyd tembjqlos
04:09Msă«ăȘurhen
04:32PENTAGON PENTAGON
05:02PENTAGON PENTAGON
05:32PENTAGON PENTAGON
05:34PENTAGON PENTAGON
06:02But NATO said no planes were hit and said it fired back in self-defense well outside of Serbia.
06:08The site was Montenegro, where NATO says Serb forces have been firing at NATO planes.
06:13NATO said...
06:15Members of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard heading out to play a role in the Kosovo area.
06:20U.S. officials say it's still too early to know how many more members of the Guard
06:25and other military reserves will be going to the region,
06:28although Defense Secretary Cohen calls it a significant number.
06:31I'll be meeting with the chairman and others during the course of the next couple of days
06:35to evaluate what would be involved in terms of the call-up.
06:39Pentagon officials say more than 500 reservists are already on duty in support of U.S. forces in Kosovo.
06:45Over the past four years, nearly 18,000 members of the military reserves
06:50have served in Bosnia as peacekeepers or in support roles.
06:54But for Kosovo, calling up reserves takes the war to another level.
06:58The idea...
06:59The type of aircraft here, they are perfectly capable of flying at low level
07:04and NATO perhaps not seeing them because they know the terrain after all.
07:07And these again could be armed with rockets or cannon fire.
07:11The supergellebs we see taking off here have got a 23mm cannon,
07:15not dissimilar from cannon that's used by NATO aircraft.
07:18And it is a case here, I think, that we have so many questions that need to be answered.
07:25And there's a rocket-firing capability there.
07:30There's so many questions that NATO has yet to answer.
07:34And are they going to answer that?
07:35To the roar of NATO jets overhead, the men who dream of liberating Kosovo patrol on the ground.
07:42For three days this week, a camera crew filmed a unit of the Kosovo Liberation Army in action.
07:49A rare glimpse of life inside the disputed province.
07:52The KLA is a symbol of hope for ethnic Albanians, but it's also become an important tool for NATO.
08:04Useful eyes and ears in enemy territory.
08:10On a hill deep inside Kosovo, the patrol gathers intelligence about troop movements.
08:16In the valley below, a Serb armoured unit is dug in, hidden from NATO warplanes.
08:23Near this tunnel, the KLA claims there's an underground ammunition dump.
08:27The location will be passed to NATO, identified as a potential target.
08:34For the patrol, it's a perilous operation, though.
08:38The Serbs fire back from positions just 500 metres away.
08:41Hoping to frighten off the KLA unit.
08:54Once safely away, the KLA use mobile phones to give the latest information to NATO contacts.
09:03Commander Mehmet Belazi says NATO gets everything, absolutely everything.
09:07During their patrols, the KLA encounter the daily reality of ethnic cleansing.
09:14In a village, a house is ablaze.
09:17What is called one of its best nights of the air campaign so far.
09:20Targets included an ammunition store, radar sites, factories and air defence facilities.
09:27Daylight revealed even more damage.
09:29Bridges in a country crossed by two major rivers are vital to the military supply route
09:34and continue to be a prime NATO target.
09:38This one, over the Danube, was hit last night.
09:41NATO has also vowed to cut off communications lines.
09:44State-run Serb TV, which is still on the air,
09:47showed these pictures today of destroyed television transmissions.
09:51NATO pilots flying at 15,000 feet are less vulnerable to serve anti-aircraft fire.
09:57But at that altitude, three miles up,
09:59the view from the cockpit of a fighter plane is anything but clear.
10:03You're in a hostile environment, you're 15,000 feet,
10:06and you're trying to find targets.
10:07That's a tough mix.
10:09It's very difficult.
10:10Colonel Dwayne Lodrig, an F-16 pilot who recently patrolled the no-fly zones in Iraq,
10:15says targets, especially small ones, can be hard to identify.
10:19From high up, military and civilian trucks might look the same.
10:22If you think about it, 15,000 feet, you're already three miles away if you're directly above it.
10:27And there will also be some slant range involved that could have them many miles away from the target.
10:34And so that compounds it.
10:35It can be like finding a needle in a haystack.
10:39Compounding the difficulty, the F-16 pilot flies alone.
10:43One pilot to control the airplane, avoid enemy fire, and attack targets.
10:47To deliver laser-guided precision bombs, like the ones being used in Yugoslavia,
10:53the F-16 pilot needs to see the target, lock it in, and fire.
10:58Pilots are trained to be certain.
10:59Each time they drop, there is no doubt in their mind that they're doing the right thing.
11:04And it's just unfortunate that there was a mistake made.
11:07But that's the trade-off.
11:09As long as NATO pilots are kept high and out of harm's way, mistakes will be harder to avoid.
11:15Bavor, CBS News, Andrews Air Force Base.
11:18...my car from the Orthodox Church outside Teteville, but it's a world apart.
11:25I've been here a month and took command of this multinational force very quickly on arrival.
11:31But I think the most remarkable example is what you see around you here.
11:36Yes, Germany is the lead nation here, but I don't know if you've been to the very large camp on the airfield,
11:41which is a multinational, it's UK lead.
11:45But the point being that the whole force, when this crisis broke,
11:48the whole force worked together to give help to these people who had been in such desperate circumstances.
11:54Well, this is a change of duty here, isn't it?
11:57It's an addition.
11:58Not a change, it's an addition.
12:00Our mission remains the same, which is to be prepared to go to Kosovo to implement a peace agreement.
12:05Do you see any chance for that?
12:07Less so, perhaps, but I hope.
12:10So, how is cooperation with the Macedonian side?
12:13We hear about some...
12:16Yeah, I understand the question entirely.
12:19The government has been under great strain with this humanitarian crisis,
12:23and they have a lot of difficulties, which I sympathize with.
12:27We are here by consent.
12:30We are a sovereign nation.
12:32We are here by their consent.
12:34And so, we must work very carefully with them.
12:37And coordination and our liaison must be very good.
12:40And I work hard to make it so.
12:42If you forget...
12:43Small groups are still making their way over the mountains into Macedonia.
12:48It's a journey fraught with dangers.
12:50Sections of the border have been mined on the Serbian side,
12:54and in many areas the terrain is very rugged.
12:58The families suffer from cold and exhaustion,
13:00and they have no way of knowing the Serbians won't turn them back once they reach the border.
13:05If they make it to the other side, they're led away by the Macedonian police.
13:10They don't know where to, but they're too weak to resist in any case.
13:14Many of them never arrive in the refugee camps.
13:18For the ones who do, supplies are brought in regularly by air.
13:22We were unable to find out by what criteria, if any, the refugees are assigned to what camps.
13:29Not even the Germans in Teterval can answer that.
13:32They've taken in 3,100 people from Kosovo so far.
13:36Neither can anyone say how long they'll be here, and what...
13:39Called weekend warriors, thousands of U.S. military reservists will soon be ordered to leave their jobs and families
13:45to report for active duty, a price of the Balkans' conflict.
13:49I think it'll be a significant number.
13:51I just, I'm not in a position to say how large the number will be at this point.
13:55A senior Defense Department official says the Pentagon will recommend that it be authorized to activate
13:59as many as 33,000 reservists, 60 to 70 percent Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard.
14:06Among the needs to be filled, finding crews to fly and support a much-expanded fleet of refueling aircraft.
14:14The Pentagon is sending dozens more tankers to handle a rapidly growing armada
14:18of NATO combat planes earmarked for use against served targets.
14:22Hundreds of volunteer reservists are already part of the operation.
14:25This part of it, it will be actually new to me, so there's always uneasiness,
14:30but you try to put that aside because, you know, you have a job to do.
14:33You make sure you do it correctly.
14:36Army reservists will come from specialty areas such as civil affairs.
14:41Their training covers a wide range of humanitarian activities,
14:44which could make them especially useful in refugee camps.
14:48The active duty tour for anyone called up, as much as 270 days.
14:52All of this could prove a jolt to Americans.
14:55That NATO's first prisoner of war, a 20-year-old Yugoslav army officer,
15:00was captured by Kosovo Liberation Army Forces and handed over to U.S. military authorities in Tirana.
15:07In the early hours of this morning, Yugoslav state television recorded a massive hit on a factory in Faljevo,
15:13southeast of Belgrade.
15:15Throughout the night, it reported a further 25 NATO strikes on targets around the Kosovo provincial capital, Pristina.
15:25HMS Invincible has spent the last few weeks in the Gulf.
15:28Now escorted by the British destroyer Newcastle, she swapped the desert for the Balkans.
15:34Equipped with seven Sea Harriers and ten Sea King helicopters,
15:39she's in a position to fulfil various NATO requirements,
15:42such as launching fighter patrols, providing air defence,
15:46and carrying out photo reconnaissance of the area.
15:49But perhaps the biggest reason she's here is because of political will,
15:53a further show of strength against the Serbs,
15:56to add to the forces which are already ranged against them.
15:59We bring a specialist air defence squadron,
16:02and it's the first specialist air defence squadron that the UK
16:04has in fact brought to this theatre during this crisis.
16:08Allied to that, we increase by a factor of 35%
16:11the number of UK combat aircraft that are in theatre.
16:14The arrival of HMS Invincible will tighten the screw on Slobodan Milosevic.
16:19A veteran of the Balkans war and recent Gulf patrols,
16:23she's no stranger to combat.
16:25Her versatility means she can slip into any role that NATO asks of her.
16:29The Sea Harriers start their combat missions tomorrow.
16:33The question is how President Milosevic will respond.
16:36Shuli Ghosh, ITN, on board HMS Invincible.
16:39...on 200 separate targets,
16:42and Yugoslavia no longer has an integrated air defence system.
16:46British Harrier ground attack planes have dropped cluster bombs
16:50on the tactical headquarters of the Pristina Army Corps in Kosovo.
16:55Aircraft coming in from the right now.
16:57There's the black impacts from the canisters
17:02and the white impacts from the sub-emission.
17:04Second impacts almost immediately afterwards.
17:06...pictures of Eurocevac Army garrison.
17:17Second, the following video shows an attack
17:20which took place yesterday against a hit helicopter
17:24at Pristina Airfield.
17:25...
17:25...
17:25...
17:26...
17:27Finally, this video shows weapons hitting an army barracks
17:54at Vrania.
17:56Once again, this was from yesterday.
17:59...
17:59and hot is white.
18:08...
18:09...red video, and hot is white.
18:24As the picture zooms, you will see the burning houses
18:28to the left of the screen.
18:30Shows what might be up to 150 graves near the village.
18:59The inset, taken on 9th March, shows the area in its original state.
19:09Just to pull me out.
19:11I used to have legs.
19:13Good.
19:13After six hours in the cockpit, including five mid-air refuelings,
19:18French Mirage fighter pilot Captain Christopher Obey
19:21is glad to be back on the ground and out of his ejection seat.
19:24It's a long mission, you know, six hours in the flight, in the airplane,
19:27so you should ask my button.
19:32But as tired as he might be right now,
19:34Captain Obey, like many of his fellow NATO pilots,
19:37wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
19:38And we have to do what we have to do.
19:40After more than three weeks of flying the air campaign against Yugoslavia,
19:45many NATO pilots remain just as comfortable with their mission.
19:48They have, after all, spent their entire careers
19:50training for exactly this kind of thing.
19:52And there appears to be no evidence
19:54that accusations NATO attacks caused civilian deaths
19:57have had any effect on the pilots or their mission.
20:00Said one Mirage pilot.
20:02I don't think it affects morale.
20:05It's clear to everyone that people are trying to do their work
20:08as best as they can,
20:10whether it's us or the Americans,
20:12or anyone in the coalition.
20:14In fact, the Italian members of the NATO coalition
20:17who are sharing their base at Estrana, Italy,
20:19with the French pilots
20:20are expanding their role in the air campaign.
20:24For the first time this week,
20:25Italian AMX airmen
20:27who have mostly flown escort missions
20:29and patrols along the Italian coast
20:30joined other NATO aircraft
20:32in a grounded pact
20:33against Serb artillery
20:34threatening alliance forces in Albania.
20:37Any pilot would rather be flying than not.
20:41But few pilots of the many air forces
20:43arrayed against Yugoslavia
20:44would miss the chance to fly in an air campaign
20:47as important as this one.
20:49Last night, NATO says attacks were successful,
20:51including this hit on a helicopter
20:53sitting at the airport in Pristina.
20:56NATO also says it took out seven Yugoslavia tanks,
20:58but again, bad weather came in later
21:00and canceled a number of missions.
21:02That was night number 24.
21:05Another 400 NATO troops arrived
21:08at the Albanian port of Durez today.
21:11They were Italian soldiers,
21:13many from a specialist Alpine brigade,
21:15used to working in the mountains,
21:17vital in an area such as Albania.
21:20All day two, plane load after plane load
21:23of humanitarian aid
21:24flew into the small airport
21:26just outside the Albanian capital, Tirana.
21:30Their cargo quickly forwarded
21:31to the refugee camps across the country
21:34by helicopters and trucks.
21:37It's to this airfield, too,
21:38that the U.S. Apache helicopter gunships
21:40will come in the near future.
21:43NATO Supreme Commander in Europe,
21:45General Wesley Clark,
21:46who's also been in Albania,
21:48confirmed some of the Apaches
21:50are already on their way.
21:53He was here primarily
21:54to discuss the growing humanitarian crisis
21:56in the region
21:57and what to do about Serb cross-border shelling
22:00in the north of Albania.
22:02The U.S. and NATO as a whole
22:17still have no plans
22:18to send in ground troops.
22:20But there were ground forces
22:22from America
22:23arriving in Tirana today
22:25to fight President Milosevic's forces
22:27in Kosovo.
22:29More than 100 Kosovo
22:30Liberation Army volunteers
22:32flew in from Detroit.
22:35But with tens of thousands
22:37of refugees from Kosovo
22:38still spilling over the borders
22:40into Macedonia
22:41and Albania particularly,
22:43it is the humanitarian crisis
22:45which is taxing many here.
22:48We arrived here in Albania
22:49with the man
22:50who is to take over
22:51as head of operations
22:52for one of the world's largest
22:54humanitarian aid organizations.
22:56Offer the carrier Roosevelt,
22:58they're hitting command
22:59and control facilities.
23:00They also took out
23:01an area where they suspect
23:02there may have been
23:03a MIG holdup
23:05in the,
23:05up in a mountainous area,
23:07up in a cave.
23:09They believe
23:10what you see
23:11is a secondary explosion,
23:12meaning when they hit the target,
23:14the target
23:14then exploded again,
23:16a secondary explosion,
23:17meaning it looks like
23:18they were deadly
23:19on target for that.
23:20The difference in the color,
23:21if you can see the color
23:22when it comes up,
23:23the green pictures
23:24are from an F-18.
23:25All of these are from
23:26from the aircraft carrier
23:28Theodore Roosevelt
23:28and up to...
23:30...troll of its airspace.
23:31It wants NATO
23:32to try and stop
23:33ongoing shelling
23:34on its border
23:35with Yugoslavia.
23:36This threat
23:37is absolutely unacceptable.
23:39It's a violation
23:40of a sovereign territory
23:42and it needs
23:44to be stopped.
23:46General Clark
23:47met with Albania's
23:48prime minister
23:48and defense minister.
23:50He told them
23:51and U.S. Apache
23:52attack helicopters
23:53will arrive
23:54in Tirana shortly.
23:56The...
23:56...billions of dollars.
24:00As President Clinton
24:01prepares to ask Congress
24:02for $6 billion
24:03in emergency spending,
24:05some Republicans
24:06are saying
24:06it's not enough.
24:08As events in Kosovo
24:09have shown,
24:10this administration
24:11has allowed
24:11our armed forces
24:12to become a shell
24:13of what they were
24:14just eight years ago
24:15during Operation Desert Storm.
24:17The cost of airstrikes
24:21vary by day
24:22dependent upon
24:23the weather,
24:24the number of sorties
24:25flown,
24:26and the type
24:26of munitions used.
24:27I'd say that
24:28even on a cloudy day
24:29this operation
24:30is probably costing
24:31about $10 million
24:31a day
24:32just to get
24:33the airplanes
24:33in the air
24:34and several million dollars
24:36more for firing
24:37cruise missiles
24:37on a busy day
24:38with clear weather.
24:39It may cost
24:40$20 million
24:41to fly the airplanes
24:42and they may be
24:42dropping another
24:43$20 million
24:44worth of bombs
24:46and missiles
24:46that day.
24:47White House officials
24:48consulted extensively
24:49with lawmakers
24:50in crafting
24:51this spending package.
24:52It includes
24:53$5.5 billion
24:54for the Defense Department
24:56to cover the air operation
24:57and replace
24:58or upgrade
24:59while aluminum
25:07matting was put down
25:08to keep them
25:09from sinking
25:09into the mud.
25:10But officials say
25:11they should be there
25:12by Sunday.
25:13When they will be used
25:14is another question.
25:16You don't have
25:16large...
25:17in Kosovo.
25:18This plane
25:18is carrying
25:19crew and military assets
25:20but no...
25:21in Kosovo is carrying
25:24in Kosovo.
25:25In Kosovo is carrying
25:26the air operation
25:26so that you can
25:27get rid of.
25:27It shows you
25:29into the air operation
25:30and that you can
25:31go down a little over
25:32into the air circulation
25:32in the air.
25:33In Kosovo is carrying
25:34the air operation
25:34in Kosovo.
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