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00:00...civilian casualties since the start of NATO's attacks, but why?
00:06There's a military barracks about half a mile away, he says, maybe more, but why hit us? We're not a target.
00:13They could find no answers to that on this night of heavy NATO strikes, when Serbs here felt suffering and pain.
00:21Brent Sadler, CNN, Aleksinac, Yugoslavia.
00:23It is a closed operational base, it's NATO's biggest airfield involved in this operation, and as such we are not allowed beyond the perimeter fence.
00:35All I can say is that with a little under half an hour to go before the Serbian unilateral ceasefire comes into effect,
00:43there is no indication here at the end of the main runway that there will be any change in what has been the operational picture here,
00:51certainly for the last two days, when clearing skies have allowed NATO's warplanes to fly day and night.
00:59This time of evening is about when the main early evening offensive gets underway,
01:04and at this time yesterday we were seeing warplanes taking off within 20 seconds of each other, the F-15s, F-16s, the A-10s,
01:15their weapons pods loaded, their wingtips bristling with weapons, and that's certainly from the activity that we can see just behind,
01:24and I can hear the sound of jet engines warming up, is what we're expecting.
01:28So as we were hearing from the White House, and as all the sources within the alliance are indicating,
01:34no let-up in what the Allies are seeing now as an air offensive which is starting to gain the upper hand after the setbacks of the bad weather in the first two weeks.
01:46So it will certainly go into its third week overnight with a renewed, certainly not an undiminished effort.
01:52Well NATO is not going to stop its airstrikes just when it looks as though they're beginning to succeed.
01:57This is another crack in the wall of obstinacy that Milosevic has put up.
02:02It's another indication that we're beginning to hurt the military machine that he's used so ruthlessly in the past few weeks against the people of Kosovo.
02:12But it's not evidence of sincerity. It's not a clear indication that he's going to change his behaviour yet.
02:20And when he does, and when we're satisfied he's going to withdraw his troops, allow an international peacekeeping force led by NATO in there to get people back in safety,
02:30and when he's stopped the violence permanently, then the bombing will stop too.
02:34Format now. These are looking through what the pilot would see. The aircraft operate together in pairs.
02:39One of them targets, the other one drops the bomb. You can see the target right in the centre there, in a box.
02:45And this is using white heat by the look of it. The thermal imaging camera gives you either white or black for heat.
02:53There's the explosion going off.
02:55What you always look for is to see the secondary explosion to make sure that it's hit a worthwhile target, something it has ammunition in.
03:01And, of course, these are military targets. These are not civilian targets that they're looking for in these.
03:06And that was followed up with tornadoes. Do they fly together often like that?
03:09Well, they don't. It's an interesting operation. We don't know a lot of the details yet, but we understand that there were a lot of activity from the tornadoes.
03:17They've been flying from RAF Bruggen in Germany.
03:19It's the first time since 1945 that RAF bomber aircraft have departed their home base, and Germany has been their home base for 50 years,
03:27against targets in enemy territory.
03:30So the RAF is sort of saying that this is a bit reminiscent of the Second World War, in a way.
03:35And the RAF was showing today how they tank from VC-10 tankers.
03:39They take fuel on board in the Mediterranean, and then again on the way back across the Adriatic.
03:45So a lot of very interesting activities.
03:46This is the Theodore Roosevelt, and it's got 47-strike aircraft on.
03:53The Hornets there, the new version of the Hornets, the CD version of the Hornets, and the Tomcat fighter, the aircraft from Top Gun.
04:00And these aircraft are capable of delivering a range of munitions, cluster weapons, precision-guided bombs, etc., right the way across.
04:08That's a Marines aircraft, because the Navy and the U.S. Marines both operate off the aircraft carriers.
04:14And this is an extra-formidable punch now for NATO.
04:17Extraordinary number of aircrafts, but can this campaign...
04:20NATO has promised the airstrikes will be undiminished, unrelenting, and unceasing.
04:26We'll both be back with Sky News at 10, when we'll go live to Washington, Macedonia, and Downing Street.
04:33What could be the heaviest night of bombing so far?
04:38This was NATO's response to the Yugoslav ceasefire.
04:51Western leaders do not see this as an olive branch.
04:54They think that Slobodan Milosevic believes his job is done in Kosovo,
04:58that enough are dead or have fled for no further action to be necessary.
05:03Global reaction was swift.
05:05Whether it's permanent or temporary, it's not sufficient.
05:07It does not meet the demands that the President, the Secretary of State, and NATO have laid down.
05:14I think this just gets added to one of the many Milosevic-type offers that have been made in the past
05:19and litter the Balkans in the bloodshed.
05:22Russia and the Vatican seem alone in welcoming the announcement,
05:26which came at 4 p.m. London time on Serbian television.
05:29Peace can be stabilized, refugees return, and autonomy may be restored.
05:34This is what Slobodan Milosevic has said.
05:44Now that they've stopped fighting, my troops will leave when the bombing ends.
05:49Refugees will be welcomed back, and talks on Kosovo autonomy can begin.
05:54NATO's reply, withdraw now or we won't stop the bombing.
05:58Allow the refugees back, and let a peacekeeping force protect them.
06:06Today, Serbian television showed pictures of the Second World War
06:10and likened the bombardment of Belgrade to the German attacks exactly 58 years ago.
06:15The bombing of 1999 is more intense now than at any time since the campaign began.
06:22Today, more than 120 warplanes left their bases in Italy.
06:26Our government made the decision to promote unilateral ceasefire,
06:36and after that, immediately to call up all refugees,
06:42Albanian refugees from Albania, from Macedonia, Montenegro,
06:48from the other parts of Serbia to come back to Kosovo.
06:51But missions are continuing, and they'll be more frequent.
06:59NATO believes the ceasefire was declared as a ploy to buy time
07:03and hopefully divide the alliance.
07:05Those fighting Slobodan Milosevic insist their resolve is unchanged.
07:11David Foster, Sky News.
07:14Well, I...
07:15...wild in the makeshift camps.
07:17This woman was taken away from the area with suspected hepatitis.
07:22There's an understandable feeling of distrust among the refugees.
07:26They continue to flee despite news of the ceasefire.
07:30But even if peace was to come to Kosovo,
07:32it would take a massive effort to repatriate this battered nation.
07:37Ross Appleyard, Sky News, Albania.
07:41Tensions in Montenegro have...
07:42General Wesley Clark is in charge of a campaign
07:46that is not exactly going to plan.
07:48Thank you very much.
07:49Let's shape out.
07:50Thank you.
07:51We were given special permission to film inside this morning's high-level briefing.
07:55Video links connected the commanders in and around the Balkans.
07:58This operation may have the best technology,
08:01but there is a feeling here, conveyed only privately,
08:04that it's not NATO that's making the running, but Mr Milosevic.
08:08In public, of course, the line remains upbeat.
08:13We never thought we could fight a ground war from the air,
08:16but we do know that we're making him pay a heck of a price
08:20for the terrible things that are going on in there,
08:23and we intend to continue it and intensify it.
08:25But who has the initiative, you or Milosevic?
08:27Well, I think very clearly from the air side we have the initiative.
08:30But nothing is quite that simple as the RAF's Harrier pilots are finding out.
08:38Armed with cluster bombs,
08:39they've been sent to attack the Serbs' tanks in Kosovo,
08:42the central part of the NATO campaign.
08:45The weather is clear for bombing now,
08:47but the Serbs have suddenly become elusive.
08:51They've spread their forces out over Kosovo
08:53and are hiding them in and amongst buildings,
08:55and also under camouflage,
08:57where the tanks are kept static, much more than usual,
09:00so they're saving the fuel which NATO is trying to starve them of.
09:04They maintain radio silence to be harder to track,
09:07and not using their engines means there's no heat
09:10for NATO's infrared cameras to pick up.
09:13At the NATO news briefing today,
09:14commanders admitted to us that they faced frustrating problems.
09:18Despite the good weather, we did have problems
09:20actually seeing the targets and being able to get them on the ground.
09:25It is a very cunning enemy out there.
09:30It was here in the heart of NATO's military headquarters
09:33that the original war plan was drawn up,
09:35but it's clear that that's now been overtaken by events on the ground.
09:39NATO's having to operate suddenly on two fronts,
09:41military and humanitarian.
09:43And it's here that NATO's having to come up with a new plan,
09:47but that's far from easy, as one senior official put it,
09:50as a vacuum of thinking about the next stage in this crisis.
09:54David Chukman, BBC News,
09:55at NATO's military headquarters in Belgium.
09:58Thanks, Judy.
10:00First of all, explosions reported in areas around Belgrade,
10:04and our colleagues in Pogorica, Montenegro,
10:07report explosions there also.
10:09We await more details on those.
10:11Let's go back to this offer of a deal
10:14from the Yugoslav authorities here.
10:16The announcement of a unilateral ceasefire
10:18was broadcast several hours ago on Serbian television.
10:21Belgrade declaring its army and police
10:24would stop fighting in Kosovo as of about four hours ago.
10:27Said to be a gesture of goodwill
10:29to mark Orthodox Easter this Sunday.
10:32But the validity of Belgrade's new military stance in Kosovo
10:35is difficult, if not impossible, to verify,
10:38given the absence of an international presence on the ground.
10:41The Yugoslav statement also offered to forge a temporary agreement
10:44with ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova
10:47and to allow a return of refugees
10:49with the help of international relief organizations,
10:53providing bombing stops,
10:54and there's no independence for Kosovo.
10:56And that no NATO-led troops are allowed inside Serbia
11:00to enforce any agreement.
11:02Well, earlier this evening,
11:04air raid sirens were heard in the Yugoslav capital
11:06as hundreds of people were seen linking arms
11:09across one of the bridges over the rivers
11:12here in the Yugoslav capital.
11:13This has been a pattern over the last couple of nights.
11:16People here in Belgrade
11:17concerned that NATO may switch their attacks
11:20against river links over the rivers Danube and Sava.
11:23While the apparent shift in Yugoslav's strategy
11:26came after NATO warplanes carried out
11:29one of the most intensive series of strikes
11:31against Yugoslavia seen so far,
11:34including yet another attack overnight
11:36on links across the river Danube
11:38at Novi Sad, Yugoslavia's second-largest city.
11:42Novi Sad's third and final bridge was badly damaged,
11:45but it still stands.
11:46In addition to roads, bridges, and rail links,
11:48allied warplanes blasted fuel depots and oil refineries.
11:52Meanwhile, in the southern Serbian town of Aleksinac,
11:56a NATO strike appeared to inflict
11:58the heaviest civilian casualties seen here so far.
12:02Reports that seven people were killed
12:03are circulating in the village tonight
12:05after two massive explosions
12:07in the centre of that community.
12:09Many other people were...
12:10Not just an end to the brutality
12:12would be needed for the bombers to be called off.
12:15Yugoslav government ministers met in Belgrade
12:17announcing there would also be a partial withdrawal
12:20of their forces if the NATO attack stopped.
12:23But the Serb offer is being regarded with open contempt.
12:26It is a pretty cynical ploy
12:27on the brink of the Orthodox Easter for this to come,
12:30and pretty cynical for those
12:31who have been tossed across the borders.
12:34We'll judge them by deeds and not by words,
12:37and we'll expect much more than this offer.
12:40The defence secretary also revealed
12:42that RAF Harriers are now bombing targets
12:44directly linked to the atrocities,
12:46including today a convoy of military vehicles.
12:49The diplomatic moves in Belgrade
12:51are being seen as a sign of a regime
12:53thrown onto the defensive.
12:56But evidence of the Serb brutality is still visible.
12:59Villages being torched,
13:00and there is tonight no sign of an end
13:02to the military offensive
13:03that has so ravaged Kosovo.
13:06Theodore Roosevelt take off today
13:07for airstrikes against Serb forces in Kosovo.
13:11With NATO warplanes from Aviano, Italy,
13:13they're the most intensive airstrikes yet.
13:16Gun camera footage shows NATO attacks
13:18on Serb fuel depots overnight,
13:2030 different targets in the past 24 hours.
13:23Now, after two weeks of airstrikes,
13:26intelligence officials report
13:27that constant bombing is beginning
13:29to grind down the Serb military,
13:31that some units are beginning to run low
13:33on fuel, ammo, and morale.
13:35The Pentagon claims that may be why
13:37Milosevic is suddenly willing to talk peace.
13:40This offer may be one sign that he's rattled,
13:43but we're going to continue to rattle him
13:46until he makes an offer that meets our conditions,
13:49and he's far away from that right now.
13:51Meanwhile, still more chaos in Kosovo
13:53as tens of thousands of refugees
13:55crowd the border into Macedonia,
13:57where camp conditions are becoming
13:59more unlivable by the day.
14:01We are living here like animals.
14:03But at the U.S. military camp in Aviano today,
14:06the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs Chairman Hugh Shelton pledges
14:09American airstrikes will not stop
14:11until they finish the job.
14:13And that'll be to continue to reduce
14:14Milosevic's capabilities.
14:16He'll get weaker by the day.
14:19But U.S. military police and paramilitaries.
14:21At that point, NATO says,
14:23ground troops must be allowed in
14:24to protect returning refugees.
14:27And Milosevic must accept political autonomy for Kosovo.
14:30After the President's national security team
14:32met at the White House this afternoon,
14:33a senior U.S. official said NATO's bombing campaign
14:36would stop if those Serb forces are withdrawn,
14:40and Milosevic indicates he's prepared
14:42to accept ground troops.
14:43The latest NBC News, Wall Street...
14:45By a committee of nations.
14:46More on that tonight from NBC's Andrea Mitchell.
14:50The U.S. has said no to the ceasefire offer,
14:53but will the other NATO allies break ranks?
14:55Tonight, the U.S. is so worried
14:57Defense Secretary Bill Cohn is heading to NATO headquarters.
15:01NBC News has learned several NATO countries
15:03who's sympathetic to Milosevic,
15:05even wanted to accept his offer today.
15:07Some of the Europeans who are already
15:09very uncomfortable with this bombing
15:11may start seizing on any offer of his
15:13as an opportunity to stop.
15:15Why are allies sympathetic to Serbia?
15:18Italy, only 150 miles from Yugoslavia,
15:20fears Serb retaliation and a flood of refugees.
15:24Greece shares Serbia's religion.
15:26Hungary has 350,000 ethnic Hungarians in Serbia.
15:29NATO sources say their objections
15:32have slowed the air war from day one,
15:34the result of fighting a war by committee.
15:36One can look at the selection of targets in Belgrade.
15:39One can also look at the decision
15:41not to have earlier deployment of ground forces in the area,
15:44or to actually use the Apache
15:46to go in with targets in Kosovo itself.
15:50In fact, U.S. officials tell NBC News
15:52General Wesley Clark, NATO's supreme commander,
15:55complained strongly that it took weeks
15:57to get approval to use Apache helicopters.
16:00Now they won't even get there for another two weeks.
16:03By then, Milosevic will have forced
16:04most Albanians out of Kosovo.
16:06I worry sometimes when targets are selected
16:10by our NATO commander
16:13and they are rejected by members of NATO.
16:16And military sources say prime targets
16:18have not been hit because of politicians
16:20worrying about civilian casualties.
16:22Targets like Milosevic's ruling party headquarters,
16:25electrical engineering plants,
16:27and Serb TV.
16:29Field commanders also say politics,
16:31not whether,
16:31cancelled some early bombing runs.
16:34Unlike the Gulf War,
16:35when Baghdad was hit hard on the very first night.
16:38Although NATO sometimes...
16:39...since the NATO...
16:39...trying to buy time and split the alliance
16:42with the cynical offer of a fake ceasefire.
16:46Glenn O'Glaza, Sky News.
16:50Refugees, those who get here are the fortunate few.
16:54Conditions in this transit camp
16:55are infinitely better
16:56than for those still waiting at the border.
16:59The sanitation, the shelter, and medicine.
17:02I genuinely believe we've made a difference.
17:04I think we've saved people's lives.
17:06We had the first death here last night
17:07of a young baby who's subsequently been buried.
17:11We haven't had, though, any more.
17:13And I think that's brilliant.
17:14And that's what we aim to maintain.
17:18The speed of delivery vital to save lives,
17:21if not the capacity.
17:22The huge tonnage of food, medicine, and equipment
17:24destined for this region
17:26will still come by mountainous road.
17:28The majority of the refugees
17:30have been transported far down
17:32to other Albanian towns and cities.
17:35But 44,000 still sit here in Kuques,
17:38in the open,
17:39waiting for someone to help them.
17:41Helicopter evacuation.
17:44A number of refugee children,
17:46some of them wounded too,
17:47were this morning flown to Tirana.
17:49The helicopters linking these refugees
17:51to the outside world,
17:52bringing them both sustenance and hope,
17:54are now moving high in the Albanian mountains.
17:57Clarence...
17:57All of NATO's demands.
18:00The Allies introduce a new weapon.
18:02We'll take you aboard an airborne battle tank,
18:05the Apache helicopter.
18:07And I...
18:08Good evening, John.
18:09Well, it's a busy night here at Avellano,
18:11the third night in a row
18:12that the Air Wars has been operating in top gear.
18:18Waves of warplanes have been taking off
18:20from this base in northern Italy ever since dusk.
18:23NATO is clearly pressing home the attack,
18:26and the pace continues to accelerate
18:28as pilots take advantage of improved weather
18:30over Serbia and Kosovo.
18:32Morale here was boosted by a brief visit
18:34of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Shelton.
18:36He dropped by to thank the men and women
18:38who've been working around the clock.
18:42Sources here tell CBS News that news of Milosevic's ceasefire
18:46was greeted on the flight lines with satisfaction.
18:48As one officer put it,
18:49it's a sure sign we're getting his attention.
18:53John?
18:53Tom Fenton in Italy. Thanks.
18:55We'll be able to stop Serb President Milosevic
18:58from carrying out the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo,
19:01but Milosevic can't stop the bombs.
19:04The U.S. and its NATO allies today
19:06spurned the Serb offer of a ceasefire.
19:08This offer may be one sign that he's rattled,
19:12but we're going to continue to rattle him
19:14until he makes an offer that meets our conditions.
19:18Last night's attack set off a massive fireball
19:21at an oil refinery,
19:22but one bomb fell short,
19:24hit an apartment, and killed civilians.
19:26Still, satellite photos show plenty of direct hits,
19:30and intelligence officers see indications
19:32the Serb army in Kosovo is beginning to falter.
19:35We have evidence of units that had to go
19:39into holding operations or holding patterns
19:42because of shortages specifically of gas and ammo.
19:47With good weather and planes from the carrier Roosevelt
19:50now joining the battle,
19:51NATO should be able to hit more and more stationary targets
19:54like this ammo storage depot.
19:56But finding and killing the Serb army in the field
19:59is a much more difficult task.
20:01We suspect...
20:03Cuba ready for as many as 20,000 refugees from Kosovo.
20:07The White House said today an airlift to Guantanamo
20:09will begin within a few days.
20:12The refugees will be housed in tents
20:14in the fenced-off U.S. enclave at the southern tip of Cuba.
20:18It's a long way...
20:19Kosovo, there is some help here in Albania tonight,
20:21but there are so many more victims
20:23and so few resources to help them.
20:26These refugees are eventually moved down the mountain,
20:29but there is one left behind,
20:31a 10-month-old child who died in Kosovo
20:34while the Serbs forced her parents
20:36to wait in the rain for two days.
20:38The tiny corpse is buried in Albania
20:40with a simple inscription,
20:43a martyr for liberty.
20:45Randall Pinkston, CBS News, Krumah, Albania.
20:49...includes the night-flying Apache attack helicopter.
20:5324 of them could be up and running over there
20:55in about two weeks.
20:56Now that you've seen the statistics,
20:58see them in action,
20:59as CBS's Bob McNamara did today
21:01at their home base in Colorado.
21:04This is the raw stuff.
21:08For aerial assaults,
21:09the Apache helicopter
21:10is the Army's main battle tank in the sky.
21:14With a crew of two,
21:15a pilot and co-pilot gunner,
21:17this war machine delivers an arsenal of weapons,
21:20from rockets and 30-millimeter shells
21:22to Hellfire laser-guided missiles
21:24capable of hitting targets nearly five miles away.
21:28It's not designed to be a very speedy helicopter.
21:31It's designed to carry a large weapons load,
21:33be very maneuverable.
21:35Developed near the end of the Cold War
21:36when the Soviet Union
21:37still posed the most likely threat to the West,
21:40the Apache was designed to be
21:42an all-weather, all-terrain anti-tank weapon,
21:45and saw its first combat
21:46in the invasion of Panama
21:47and later in the Persian Gulf.
21:50This is Fort Carson, Colorado,
21:52the largest aviation squadron in the U.S. Army.
21:5616 combat-ready Apaches are based here.
21:59Here, after Apache flight crews are paired up,
22:02they undergo months of training and battle drills
22:05over both desert and mountain terrain.
22:08And nighttime exercises
22:09will become the most valuable lessons the crews learn.
22:12So that gives you a great advantage at night
22:15where the enemy may not be able to see you,
22:17you can still see him, acquire him, and engage him.
22:20With all its sophistication,
22:22pilots say the Apache can be a high-maintenance machine
22:24with large ground support crews needed to keep it flying.
22:28And fitted for battle,
22:30the Apache price tag is about $14 million each.
22:34Bob McNamara, CBS News, Fort Carson, Colorado.
22:38Lost his stealth fighter jet over Serbia last month,
22:41but was plucked to safety in a daring rescue operation.
22:45In an interview with an Air Force reporter,
22:48the unidentified F-117 pilot said,
22:51I knew I was fairly deep into Serbian territory,
22:54within 20 miles of Belgrade.
22:56Not a happy thought.
22:58He remembers intense G-forces
23:00as he tried to eject,
23:01but can't remember actually pulling the eject handles.
23:04God took my hands and pulled, he said.
23:07He parachuted into a field
23:0850 yards from a road and rail intersection
23:10and radioed NATO for help.
23:13At one point, a Serb search dog
23:14came within 30 feet of the culvert where he hid.
23:17During the entire six hours stuck behind Serb lines,
23:21the pilot clutched a cloth American flag
23:23he'd been given by a female airman.
23:25knowing that it was her way of saying,
23:27I'm giving this to you to give back to me
23:29when you get home.
23:31It helped me not let go of hope.
23:33The pilot says he was prepared for capture
23:35and he says,
23:36I still can't believe that I got on board
23:38that rescue vehicle with our guys.
23:41Aircraft carrier to NATO's Kosovo campaign.
23:45In addition, several thousand French troops
23:47have been trying to help
23:48the tens of thousands of Kosovo refugees
23:50forced out of the province
23:52by Serbian police and military.
23:56Whether France would temporarily accept
23:58any of the refugees,
24:00Chirac said it was not necessary.
24:01Strikes in Belgrade intensify.
24:03In Washington, it's the rhetoric that's heating up.
24:06A war of words.
24:08We are easy!
24:09Although it has housed 50,000 migrants before,
24:12the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
24:14will need days to prepare
24:16for refugees from Kosovo.
24:18The tent city and barracks
24:20that sprang up to house Haitian and Cuban refugees
24:22in 1994 have been taken down.
24:26Gone are latrines, portable showers,
24:28expanded medical facilities,
24:29and other amenities.
24:31Back then, there was a staff of 7,000
24:34assigned to Guantanamo
24:35that has been scaled back to bare bones now
24:37according to the U.S. Southern Command.
24:391,000
24:40losses of personnel and equipment.
25:01Sighted as targets successfully hit
25:02Serb forces in the field,
25:04both military and paramilitary,
25:07ammunition storage areas,
25:08oil refineries,
25:10bridges,
25:11military headquarters buildings,
25:13and barracks.
25:14All of this, we are told,
25:15must be taking a psychological toll.
25:17When you see your comrades
25:19killed in strikes
25:22in the middle of the night
25:23from afar,
25:24I mean,
25:26I guess I'm making
25:27some analytical assessments here.
25:28We do have some evidence,
25:30but it is not conducive
25:32to keeping your mind
25:35totally on the business at hand.
25:37Still, the Pentagon says
25:39Yugoslavia's air defense system
25:40is still operating
25:41and that Belgrade
25:42continues to exercise
25:43command and control
25:44over its forces
25:45in Kosovo province.
25:47Added to that
25:47is another problem.
25:49Serb troops
25:49are taking advantage
25:50of their familiarity
25:51with the terrain.
25:52This army
25:53is good
25:54at using cover,
25:56concealment,
25:56and deception.
25:58And
25:59it can take the place
26:01of hiding in tree lines
26:03and forests
26:04and natural terrain.
26:05Then there is
26:06the complication
26:07of the refugees.
26:08With so many
26:09ethnic Albanians
26:10being forced
26:10out of Kosovo,
26:12clogging the province's roads,
26:14they are apparently
26:14interfering with
26:15the alliance's ability
26:16to go after
26:17some Serb targets.
26:19NATO Tuesday
26:19added a lot more firepower
26:21to its arsenal
26:22in the Balkans.
26:23The U.S. Navy carrier
26:24Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group
26:25gives the alliance
26:26nearly 50 more combat planes
26:28and four ships
26:29capable of firing
26:30cruise missiles
26:31against Yugoslav targets.
26:33Gene Randall, CNN,
26:34and the Pentagon.
26:36We get more now
26:37on NATO's
26:37intensified campaign
26:39from two correspondents.
26:41CNN's Jim Clancy
26:42is following
26:43the day's events
26:44from NATO headquarters
26:45in Brussels, Belgium.
26:47First,
26:47CNN military affairs
26:49correspondent
26:49Jamie McIntyre
26:50joins us
26:51from the Pentagon.
26:52Jamie,
26:53how soon might we see
26:54these A-10s
26:55and Apache helicopters
26:56used?
26:57Well,
26:58for the Apaches,
26:58it's going to be
26:59still a week or so.
27:00There is quite a bit
27:01of logistics
27:02that has to be
27:02taken care of
27:03to move these
27:04tank-killing helicopters.
27:06They're essentially
27:06airborne tanks
27:08down to their positions
27:09in Albania
27:10along with the
27:11almost 3,000 U.S. troops
27:13and tanks
27:14and Bradley fighting vehicles
27:15that will be
27:16protecting the forces
27:17as they operate
27:18out of Albania.
27:19As for the A-10,
27:20which is also known
27:21as a tank killer,
27:22used in the Persian Gulf War
27:24to great success,
27:26we may not see
27:27these A-10s used
27:28against forces
27:29in Kosovo,
27:30at least not
27:30until the air defenses
27:32have been neutralized
27:33quite a bit more.
27:34There's a saying
27:35at the...
27:35This is about
27:3650 miles north
27:38of Belgrade.
27:39These pictures
27:40shown evidently...
27:42in the
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