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Combat Warplanes / Re: NATO attack 1999
« on: March 24, 2008, 01:50:11 PM »
During this time i was very busy too. I was in the last school year before i would leave and start my alternative civilian service (instead of military service). What i remember most from the news was the bombing of Serbian Media/TV station and of the chinese embassy (which was claimed in the media would have been an accident).
An interesting interview from 04/1999 i found here in this context:
http://periodafter.t0.or.at/pa1/interviews/4.htm
I was shocked when i heard that media and an embassy were bombed. This was certainly the day when many people here started to have stronger distrust in american air strikes. This also delayed the acceptance of China into the WTO, which I and some friends thought could been a political mean of the Clinton administration against China.
In gereral what we saw on the tv news of the bombing, if i remember that correctly, was mostly censored material so you would see similar like in the iraq war how a precision cruise missiles hit a target but you would not get much information beside.
An interesting interview from 04/1999 i found here in this context:
http://periodafter.t0.or.at/pa1/interviews/4.htm
I was shocked when i heard that media and an embassy were bombed. This was certainly the day when many people here started to have stronger distrust in american air strikes. This also delayed the acceptance of China into the WTO, which I and some friends thought could been a political mean of the Clinton administration against China.
In gereral what we saw on the tv news of the bombing, if i remember that correctly, was mostly censored material so you would see similar like in the iraq war how a precision cruise missiles hit a target but you would not get much information beside.
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