Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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This will basically help NATO tighten the noose around Milosevic's neck, ... do a more effective job at eliminating or neutralizing the forces on the ground.
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trying to get food to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people within Kosovo is a priority for NATO and certainly for the non-government organizations.
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We are in favor of having NATO move to the next stage, which is the so-called activation warning, to come closer to the use of military force if necessary.
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They were, in fact, herded into an area and were, in fact, told before the event took place, 'Now you're going to see what a NATO bombing strike is like,'
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He just said that if you looked down several months out into the future and you reach a point in August or September or October where we might want to deploy ground troops, what is the type of planning timeframe that would be necessary in order to position NATO to do that,
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There is no consensus in NATO today for a ground invasion force.
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The massed artillery is relatively easy for NATO planes to target. And we have been targeting that, and have now, we believe, removed the majority of the artillery in Kosovo -- perhaps as much as 90 percent of the artillery in Kosovo in the last several weeks -- by attacking massed artillery along the borders.
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A NATO bomb went astray and we don't know what it hit.
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We're doing all that. We think it's good that Governor Bush wants to continue these programs.
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It would be an absolute victory for terrorists ... if we stopped doing our job in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world,
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These soldiers from the First Infantry Division first went to Macedonia to participate in a United Nations mission called UNPREDP, the U.N. Preventative Deployment, which was protecting Macedonia.
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These men should be freed. They should not have been captured in the first place. And to the extent they're still there, that's regrettable.
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The U.N. is sending a team that's supposed to arrive tomorrow (Wednesday), to evaluate the situation and then return to New York, I believe, on Friday to report their findings. And depending on what they report, then the U.N. will decide what to do next.
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These are the forces that are being used to attack the Kosovar Albanians in Kosovo, and we will continue to focus on those targets.