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To: Hoplite
You first claimed the article was "lie and deny". Then you said the UN numbers were wrong. Then you said the Nato estimates were wrong. You are a moving target.

I think I found the discrepancy. It's name is "Hoplite".

The following website and the exerpt from that website cite the London Times and the Boston Globe referring to the NATO estimate of 100,000 killed. I verified that both the Boston Globe article and the NY Times article existed, but without paying couldn't read the full text. Nevertheless the free Times article excerpt has enough to know that the article is about war crimes inspectors being surprised about the number of killed Albanians.

http://www.tenc.net/milo/freezer1.htm#_ftn1

The Times (London), November 2, 1999, Tuesday, Features, 553 words, Kosovo’s corpse count.

The Hague has recently offered an interesting prevarication for the 100,000 figure on NATO’s behalf:

[Quote From Boston Globe Starts Here]

[Graham T.] Blewitt [the deputy chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia], said that the 100,000 figure of missing Kosovars was accurate when given, but that the vast majority of that number had fled Kosovo when Serb forces began a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing after the NATO bombing began. He said tens of thousands of Kosovars had crossed over into Macedonia to stay with relatives or friends, but that there was no reliable system to account for refugees.

The Boston Globe, September 24, 2000, Sunday, Third Edition, Pg. A4, 815 words, 4,000 "Kosovo Slayings Documented Prosecutor Says Real Toll Unknown," By Kevin Cullen, Globe staff

40 posted on 06/19/2003 1:12:53 PM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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To: DannyTN
You are putting forth an article that refers to 100,000 missing, when the original article, which you are being tasked with verifying, refers to claims of 100,000 dead.

Do you understand the issue here?

Doesn't seem like it - you're using a misquotation or misrepresentation to discredit the original source.

47 posted on 06/19/2003 3:10:08 PM PDT by Hoplite
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