[PEN-L:8710] Kosov@ news

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from Scott Shuger's "Today's Papers" column in SLATE (copyright 1999 Bill
Gates): US Today reports: > news that many of the numbers used by the
Clinton administration and NATO during the Yugoslav war to describe
Kosovo's plight were "greatly exaggerated." Details: Instead of 100,000
ethnic Albanian men feared murdered by Serbs, the real count appears closer
to 10,000; The 600,000 Albanian men described by President Clinton in May
as lacking shelter, short on food or buried in mass graves have in fact
come through the war healthy; and Kosovo's livestock and crops have also,
contrary to official wartime reports, been mostly unaffected. The story
quotes a Pentagon spokesman as denying conscious government deception, and
a Boston University professor saying that large estimates were used to tap
the memory of the Holocaust as a means of justifying U.S./NATO action. <

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