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I hadnt heard that...

I wouldnt be surprised.

That is the only way you can bring one down.

You have to know ahead of time the flight path and then load up triple A in the surrounding countryside...especially on different hillsides, that way when and if the plane jinks the chances are he will be moving into the path of an incoming missile or ground fire.

It's how they killed the F-111 in Vietnam. The 474th Fighter Wing was flying them in Operation Combat Lancer. They were using the Terrain Following Radar to stay low. The North Vietnamese figured out that if you fired chaff rockets along the flight path, the TFR saw a mountain and pulled up. After that, massed AA would open up in the area and do their damage.

French officer accused of collaborating with Milosevic government

(Disregard the source, it's the best link I could find.)

Pierre-Henri Bunel, a former French intelligence officer, is appearing before a military tribunal charged with treason. Bunel is accused of handing over to Serbian intelligence secret plans for the Alliance’s air strikes on Yugoslavia, one year before the bombing campaign commenced in spring 1999.

Bunel is no minor figure in French military circles. He received the Légion d’honneur, France’s highest military decoration, for his intelligence work in Bosnia in 1995. He was attached to the French NATO delegation in Brussels in mid-1996, serving as head of staff to the delegation’s senior military adviser, General Pierre Wiroth. He had access to most of NATO’s classified information.