“The pilot attacked what he believed to be military vehicles,” said Mr Shea (spokesman for NATO, as reported on 1999-04-15 by the BBC). “He dropped his bomb in good faith, as you would expect of a trained pilot from a democratic country. ... The bomb destroyed the lead vehicle, which we now believe to have been a civilian vehicle.”
“NATO deeply regrets” the death of five people when missiles fell 600m short of their target and hit residences in the mining town of Aleksinac on April 5.
“NATO deeply regrets” the death of at least ten people when NATO jets hit a Yugoslav passenger train travelling from Belgrade to Salonika on a bridge near Leskovac on April 12.
“NATO deeply regrets” the deaths of 80 people which occurred when NATO attacked two refugee columns in Western Kosovo on April 14.
“NATO deeply regrets” the deaths of at least ten people killed in the bombing of a Serbian television station in Belgrade on April 23.
“NATO deeply regrets” the deaths of twenty civilians which occurred when a laser-guided bomb lost its target lock over Surdulica on April 27.
“NATO deeply regrets” the deaths of thirty nine civilians killed when a NATO missile hit a bus crossing a bridge at Luzane on May 1.
“NATO deeply regrets” killing at least seventeen people when a NATO bomb hit a bus packed with women and children near Pec on May 3.
“NATO deeply regrets” killing fifteen people when a cluster bomb exploded over a market and a hospital in Nis on May 6.
“NATO deeply regrets” killing three Chinese diplomats when NATO bombers hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade on May 7.
The arsenals of democracy are deep. We are not anywhere near running out. We can fight this for months and months, if not years.
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Harry Shelton
Historically, the weather is better in May than in April, better in June than in May, better in July than in June.
- U.S. President Bill Clinton on Thursday signaled that the airstrikes on Yugoslavia could extend well into the summer
NATO had destroyed the last remaining bridge over the Danube in the city of Novi Sad (more than 500km/300miles from Kosovo): Kosovo is becoming even more isolated from Serbia.
- Jamie Shea, NATO spokesman
Yesterday NATO bombed the bridges in Novi Sad, the second bigest town in Kosovo.
- News on CNN
Bombardment of Yugoslavia is an attempt to defend moral values 21st century Europe would cherish.
- Xavier Solana
We do know that we must do more to reach out to our children and teach them to express their anger and to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- Bill Clinton, after 20 days of bombing.
The train was on or near the bridge, but it was not the target!
- NATO officials, explaining bombing of a passanger train.
He dropped his bomb in good faith, as you would expect a well trained pilot from a democratic country to do.
- Jamie Shea, after the bombing of a refugee convoy when 72 people were killed.
We do know that we must do more to reach out to our children and teach them to express their anger and to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- Bill CLinton
“I don’t see this as a long-term operation. I think that this is achievable within a relatively short period of time”.
- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on March 24th, 1999.
“We never expected this to be over quickly”.
- U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on April 19th, 1999.