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01:47And some argue airstrikes are not enough to defeat Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.

01:53Division and defeat.

01:56Is Kosovo another Vietnam?

01:57It is another massive commitment to a conflict in a faraway place.

02:02And certainly some of the images overlap.

02:05There were Americans in captivity then and now.

02:08The domino theory was invoked then and now.

02:11There was a concentrated use of air power and a reluctance to use ground troops then and now.

02:17We tried to bomb the communists into submission.

02:21And one of the things that's similar is it doesn't seem to be working.

02:26In Vietnam, the U.S. ramped up its military commitments slowly.

02:30A former defense secretary sees a similar pattern in Kosovo.

02:34There is always a risk in gradualism.

02:36It pacifies the hesitant and the tentative.

02:40What it doesn't do is shock and awe and alter the calculations of the people you're dealing with.

02:47The U.S. had trouble extricating itself from Vietnam and some predict the same in the Balkans.

02:54In Vietnam, we had actually a somewhat more clear goal about what victory would mean.

02:58Protecting the South Vietnamese government from communist infiltration and attack.

03:02In this case, we haven't even been that specific.

03:04So here we're actually doing a worse job of developing an exit strategy than we did in Vietnam.

03:10Senator Chuck Robb, who served in Vietnam, cautions that in many respects Kosovo is not comparable.

03:17The most important difference here is with NATO, with the unity and the firepower of NATO,

03:24the vested interest in an operation that's taking place right in their backyard,

03:28and a far more sophisticated weaponry that is far more devastating to Milosevic than anything we're able to bring to bear on Ho Chi Minh.

03:37Demonstration against a possible move by North Korea.

03:41After using scores of cruise missiles in Iraq and Yugoslavia, the Air Force finds itself down to about 100 in its inventory.

03:49As the conflict in Kosovo continues, Pentagon planners find themselves juggling people, military assets, and inventories.

03:57Some in Congress are worried.

03:58Supposing then Saddam decides to do something, fire some missiles somewhere, and we get a good force there.

04:05Or the North invades the South in Korea.

04:07We couldn't possibly conduct three operations simultaneously.

04:11Actually, Pentagon officials say they could conduct three operations at once,

04:15and they say they do not believe resources are spread too thin.

04:19So over time, it will take a little bit of a toll, I think, but the way we're handling the forces and moving the forces around,

04:26we have the capability to cover all the regions as we speak today.

04:31Some analysts say there is a problem, but it's in the details, not in the big picture.

04:37We need to spend a little less money getting ready to build futuristic weapons

04:41when we're already so far ahead of the rest of the world in our weapons technology.

04:45Spend a little more money, not only on people, but also on the spare parts

04:49and other things to keep current equipment operational.

04:52Pentagon officials say they are too busy with airstrikes and humanitarian relief

04:57to estimate what Kosovo is costing, but it's going to be in the billions of dollars.

05:02Congress comes back to town next week.

05:04The administration will soon have to ask it for more money.

05:08The situation and into Macedonia and into safety, and they said they'd gone.

05:12Do you know where they've been sent to?

05:15No, we don't, is the short answer.

05:17What's happened overnight is that we've continued to construct both here and about three kilometres away,

05:23working through the night, sanitation, tentage and so forth.

05:27But we too heard that the border was fairly empty this morning.

05:30We're now hearing that it is empty.

05:33Overnight, we know that 120 buses plus went south.

05:37I'm not sure where.

05:38What we don't know is whether the border will fill up again.

05:40and that's obviously what's my major concern at the moment

05:42because we don't want to know how many more people are going to come in here.

05:45So what are you doing for those people who are there?

05:47Well, we're doing what we've done now for about the last three or four days.

05:53I'm sure you're aware of the background to all of this,

05:55but it's essentially NATO has built this place and effectively at the moment we are running it.

06:01And therefore what we're doing is with, I have to say, UNHCR,

06:05a couple of particular guys on the ground who've been fantastic,

06:07and the World Food Programme man, single man, who I know on the ground,

06:11I know there are other people working within Skopje in the warehouse there,

06:15we're feeding them, sustaining them in all aspects of life support.

06:19What's particularly worrying me today, it's going to be hot today, I suspect, is sanitation.

06:23Indeed, and of course that's when disease starts to spread.

06:26We know that British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook was saying to us this morning here on Sunrise

06:31that the best thing to do is try and tackle the problem in the Balkans,

06:35don't take the refugees away.

06:36Having been there, is that your gut reaction too?

06:42Not for me to comment whether the Foreign Secretary's got it right or not.

06:45What I'm here to do is to look after these people,

06:47and these people who are here around me have over the last three days become our family,

06:52and we want to make sure they're looked after.

06:54Where they go from here is other people's business, frankly.

06:58Half-dozen atrocities of which we have received reports

07:02for the most recent 24-hour period, ending at 1,800 hours only yesterday.

07:09In that single day, we received six reports of killings in Kosovo,

07:16including reports of a mass execution at Pashtrik, in the bottom left corner,

07:20and also the execution of 35 civilians at Sopi, slightly to the top right of Pashtrik.

07:29This is on top of the long charge sheet of war crimes which have been notched up by Milosevic's forces in the past two weeks.

07:42300-mile range.

07:45The rockets, it carries 76 of those rockets.

07:48The gun that it has on the nose, it can fire over 600 rounds a minute.

07:52So it's a huge, hugely capable system,

07:56and there isn't a single piece of Serbian armoured vehicle that can withstand the Hellfire missile.

08:01I know you said they can be protected, but of course, to those of us who are not militarily minded,

08:06they do look terribly vulnerable.

08:07Well, they do, don't they, because they look like little wasps.

08:09But if I could tell you that I've had the opportunity of flying the aircraft.

08:12When you're sitting in the cockpit, you're surrounded by plexiglass,

08:16which can withstand a very large anti-aircraft shell.

08:19All the aircraft, it's very small and very thin in shape.

08:22It's designed to be difficult to shoot at.

08:25It's got a lot of self-defence equipment.

08:27Really, nothing can get within about eight kilometres of it, and they fly in...

08:30...on this earlier today, and most of the targets they've been aiming for have been hit in the last few days.

08:36Now, US Secretary of State William Cohen in Brussels to meet with the Secretary General of NATO, Javier Solana,

08:44and also get a briefing from military commanders on the status of the operation so far.

08:51And he said that the offer from President Milosevic,

08:55he didn't know the reasons why he would offer a ceasefire,

08:58but he said, he guessed that would be because President Milosevic is going to...

09:03We will continue to assist our partners.

09:06Professional scrutiny, it shows Serbian armoured vehicles in Kosovo,

09:10which have been confirmed to be heavily damaged or destroyed in previous attacks.

09:20Moving to my next slide, and it'll be a little easier to see the damage in this one.

09:25Shown here is the imagery of the Belgrade Militia Hangar facility.

09:28This image is before our attack, and the next one is after our attack.

09:42The next image is a pre-strike assessment of Pristina Airfield.

09:47And if you look very closely, you will see operational Serbian MiG aircraft

09:51on the parking aprons and taxiways.

09:54The next image shows the same area of Pristina Airfield after our attack.

10:06An attack which you will note added at least three more MiG aircraft to our total claims,

10:12plus other damage to the airfield.

10:14They won't bend, but Milosevic's try-on with a unilateral ceasefire

10:19is interpreted as the first sign that he's now looking for a way out.

10:24Michael Sullivan, Sky News.

10:28Europe since the Second World War.

10:29The exodus of thousands of ethnic Albanians from the Serbian province of Kosovo.

10:34Deported by Slobodan Milosevic's brutal Serbian security forces,

10:38or are they fleeing from the bombs and missiles of the world's biggest military alliance?

10:43And where NATO member states is arriving by the hour.

10:48Tents, blankets, medicine, and food are distributed in the refugee camps

10:52in Macedonia, Albania, and Montenegro.

10:55But aid alone is not enough.

10:57The camps are overflowing, and most of the refugees are sick or malnourished.

11:03The evacuation started on Monday when a plane filled with Kosovo Albanians

11:07landed at Korlu Air Base in Turkey.

11:10It's a VJ Army barracks in southern Serbia.

11:15As you can see here, the four major buildings of that barracks

11:19surrounding what is a heliport.

11:21The H in the middle is a heliport.

11:23There are civilian populated areas in very close proximity to that target.

11:28And as you know, we do a tremendous amount of target planning

11:33and work on that target with some very sophisticated planning tools

11:37and are very, very, very careful on our collateral damage.

11:40It's one of the important areas that we watch in all our planning.

11:43But you can see the before picture of that particular barracks area

11:47and then the after.

11:49Next slide.

11:50Or chart.

11:52As you can see, significant damage on all four of those buildings.

11:56You might call that significant damage.

11:57I'd probably call it destroyed.

11:59The heliport area itself has been covered,

12:03probably rendered unusable, at least temporarily.

12:06And you can also see that there has been no damage to the civilian area.

12:10That's very close.

12:13Next chart.

12:14How close the civilian area is in terms of speed?

12:17It looked to me like it was within about 100 meters or so.

12:21Forces have attack helicopters similar.

12:24And there's the after picture, the main hangar and maintenance facility,

12:27basically burnt out and destroyed.

12:29So there is, from the NATO point of view,

12:33quiet satisfaction about the way things have gone over the last 48 hours.

12:37Here we are seeing another airfield just outside Pristina

12:40with some fighter bombers.

12:43And basically those were attacked and three destroyed on the ground.

12:46As the heaviest night of bombing so far,

12:49NATO said 439 sorties were flown

12:52and Serb-armoured units were hit for the first time.

12:56But the Serbs are saying that one of the targets bombed was a school.

13:01Ten cities set up by NATO troops in Macedonia

13:04filled up with refugees today.

13:06But thousands have been bussed against their will into neighbouring Albania,

13:10leaving behind friends, relatives and treasured possessions.

13:13And still more have disappeared inside Kosovo itself.

13:17And as the Albanian authorities continue to struggle with the new influx,

13:22its border with Kosovo was closed by the Serbs.

13:25The Macedonian frontier is also closed.

13:28And NATO says it fears for the safety of anyone still inside Kosovo.

13:32It's for a field hospital.

13:35But they haven't yet received clearance to move off.

13:37So its construction just outside the port of Duras will have to wait until then.

13:42Not that there's any shortage of relief vehicles already on the main roads.

13:47The highways here are at best dilapidated

13:50and their capacity, like Albania's ability to receive more refugees,

13:55is stretched to the limit.

13:57Nine civilians have allegedly been killed by the air raids, 15 wounded.

14:02One man told me, if this is democracy, then the word is not in my vocabulary.

14:06A woman screamed at me from a balcony,

14:09you are animals, I hate your government.

14:11Across town, NATO had scored a direct hit on the cemetery.

14:15At least 20 graves were severely damaged,

14:18a massive crater gouged into the earth,

14:20where five or six graves had been, they were obliterated.

14:24At dark, the siren sounded again.

14:27The city, in darkness, waited for the next wave.

14:31Tim Marshall, Sky News, Pristina.

14:33It will be any less severe than those of the last 24 hours,

14:38when more than 400 NATO sorties were flown.

14:42Our pilots are fired up mentally, physically, and tactically prepared to go.

14:50Here in satellite-enhanced imagery obtained by Moneyline,

14:53NATO said it spotted a row of Soviet-designed MiG fighter jets and destroyed them.

14:58This, NATO says, was a militia hangar in Belgrade, heavily damaged.

15:02And this was a Serb army barracks, also hit.

15:06But NATO said Serb forces were holding their ground at several strongholds in western Kosovo,

15:11still firing at Allied planes, although without success.

15:15Washington said Serb military offensives continued,

15:18despite Tuesday's ceasefire announcement.

15:21And journalists got their first look at the damage in Pristina.

15:24The Pristina center itself and the outskirts, I have to say, appear like a ghost town.

15:30There is hardly anybody on the streets of any ethnic origin.

15:34In Pristina, Serb authorities said they had found 10 bodies in the rubble and were still searching for more.

15:41Peter Viles, CNN Financial News, New York.

15:44We're seeing here test video of the BL-755 cluster bomb being dropped.

15:52This is the weapon being used by the Harriers and Tornadoes in Kosovo.

15:56Yes, it is not as precise as a laser-guided bomb.

15:59Laser-guided bomb, you can, there's everything going well, pick a window, whatever.

16:04With a weapon like this, you have 147 separate grenades in effect,

16:08covering an area about 100 metres by 50.

16:11But if you are going after armour formations, artillery targets in the field,

16:16assuming it's not close to towns or refugee areas,

16:20then it's the, as it were, the weapon of choice.

16:23So they have stressed they are only using these area weapons, cluster bombs,

16:27where they are convinced there is no chance of collateral damage.

16:32Now, in the last half hour, an advisor to Yugoslav President Sloblam Losevic has said that...

16:36...forces against Belgrade, as our...

16:40...in the Adriatic, so it's probably safe to assume that it was bombs dropped by planes,

16:47but at this time there is no confirmation on the side of the Yugoslav authorities' loop.

16:51And this building, we're told, Alessio, the pictures that we're looking at near

16:55the Central Railroad facility in Belgrade.

17:01And, Alessio, we appreciate you bringing us up to date.

17:04We will continue...

17:05...killers and aircraft armed with cluster bombs against Serb troops in the field.

17:09This was our first major breakthrough against armoured forces in the field.

17:14We were able to locate and attack several units.

17:17In one attack, we were able to drop weapons on a column of between 7 and 12 vehicles.

17:23Two weeks of attacks on oil refineries and fuel depots are finally causing at least some Serb units to run low on fuel.

17:30But the Serb army is not giving up, just changing tactics.

17:34What we're seeing is perhaps a hunkering down of those forces.

17:38Long lines of refugees suddenly disappeared from border crossings as the Serbs ordered them back into Kosovo.

17:44Why is not clear, but it will have the effect of giving the army civilians to hide behind.

17:50But the battle is what they're doing in the name of humanity.

17:54People actually do take their lives in their hands each night.

17:58They go out, but they do so because they're part of a disciplined service.

18:02They are skilled, they're professional, they're committed.

18:05And in this particular conflict, they're fighting for more than just a military objective.

18:10They're fighting for decency and humanity in a part of the world that seems to have ignored that.

18:16Not so very long ago, the enemy was just 15 minutes flight time away from here, on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

18:24There's a bitter irony, according to the Defence Secretary, in using this base,

18:29which was developed at the beginning of the Cold War, to fight another war in Europe in the closing year of the 20th century.

18:37There are fearful and sleepless nights on site now, as families wait nine hours

18:42to hear if crews have returned safely from what is a perilous journey.

18:47Seven hours en route, nine hours in the cockpit total.

18:50It is a long sortie, which we're not used to, again, but they're finding it tiring, obviously.

18:56A quick helicopter ride down to Bonn for a Secretary of State, who also has his work cut out.

19:03German Defence...

19:03...so that A-10s were used in a ground attack mode,

19:07as NATO reported success in hitting troops and vehicles in the field.

19:13At the same time, there is word tonight from the Pentagon that there may be a further delay

19:18in getting the Apache helicopters that have been requested by the Supreme NATO Commander

19:23for use to continue attacks against troops.

19:26The helicopters were supposed to be in in about seven to ten days,

19:30but sources now say it may be the end of the month before all the logistics can be worked out

19:35for those helicopters and their support troops.

19:37The reason these helicopters are so crucial is that they would be used to conduct low-level strikes against forces,

19:45and they would be backed up by these ATACA missiles.

19:49These satellite-guided missiles drop cluster munitions over an area to lay down a protective area

19:56where the helicopters can then go in and use their laser-guided missiles to attack tanks and troops in the field.

20:03But again, it may be another as much as three weeks before those helicopters get in place.

20:09And we should mention that there was an aircraft shot down over Yugoslavia today,

20:15but it was an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft,

20:18the kind that the Allies use in order to safely take a look at some of the targeting information that they need to gather.

20:27This unmanned vehicle called the Hunter has two engines on it.

20:31It has no pilot, but it has a television camera that sends real-time images back to commanders

20:36so they can take a look at what's going on on the battlefield.

20:39And as a Pentagon...

20:40...killing plane known as the Warthog.

20:42Like its namesake, the A-10 Warthog won't win any beauty contests,

20:49nor will it win many races.

20:51Under 400 miles per hour top speed isn't much to shout about these days.

20:56But...

20:57When it comes down to battle, I'd rather have an A-10 than anything else flying.

21:02Why the enthusiasm for this slow, homely aircraft more than two decades old?

21:07Firepower for one.

21:0916,000 pounds of munitions on board each plane.

21:11Maverick missiles that can destroy tanks.

21:15Sidewinders that can take out planes or helicopters.

21:18General purpose bombs to support troops on the ground.

21:21Flares to throw off enemy missiles.

21:23A Gatling gun firing 70 rounds a second, each able to pierce a tank.

21:28The plane's also highly maneuverable, allowing it to fly close to the ground.

21:32And, as pilots say, it's survivable.

21:35It's got two engines.

21:36It's got the redundant systems that allow it to fly with no hydraulics.

21:41And it's a plane that's going to come home, even after it's been hit.

21:44The Warthog in the past has taken serious hits, lost sections of its wings, and still completed its mission.

21:51During the Gulf War, they certainly proved their worth.

21:54They flew 8,000 sorties during the conflict,

21:56and were responsible for fully half of all equipment losses suffered by the Iraqis.

22:01So, say the Warthog pilots, who cares that their plane isn't sleek and pretty?

22:06And, you know, I love it for that.

22:09I don't want to fly a pretty airplane.

22:11I want to get down and dirty.

22:12Down and dirty in the Gulf War, and now in Yugoslavia.

22:17Brian Cabell, CNN, Moody Air Force Base, Georgia.

22:19In times of war, it's the Defence Secretary's primary duty

22:26to salute the bravery and skill of the forces who carry out the orders.

22:30Tornadoes have flown on bombing missions from RAF, Breugen, and North Germany ever since Sunday,

22:37all of them scoring their hits.

22:39This is what did the damage last night.

22:41They've been attacking bridges, fuel depots, and Serb barracks within Kosovo,

22:47and have been menaced in return by anti-aircraft missiles.

22:50As the Defence Secretary told me,

22:53the crews could be proud of what they're doing in the name of humanity.

22:57People actually do take their lives in their hands each night.

23:01They go out, but they do so because they're part of a disciplined service.

23:05They are skilled, they're professional, they're committed.

23:07And in this particular conflict, they're fighting for more than just a military objective.

23:13They're fighting for decency and humanity in a part of the world that seems to have ignored that.

23:19Not so very long ago, the enemy was just 15 minutes flight time away from here,

23:24on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

23:27There's a bitter irony, according to the Defence Secretary,

23:30in using this base, which was developed at the beginning of the Cold War,

23:35to fight another war in Europe.

23:37in the closing year of the Cold War.

23:39Thank you.

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