Operacija Potkovica claimed systematic

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 29 11:28:40 PDT 1999


Seth Ackerman wrote:


>I recently spoke with the State Department correspondent for Agence
>France Presse. He told how on a plane trip with Madeleine Albright and
>selected journalists in March, just before the bombing, a reporter kept
>asking her to comment on what the Italians were saying. What, you might
>ask, were the Italians saying? They were screaming and pleading with the
>NATO leaders to consider the fact that bombing Serbia would create a
>massive refugee crisis and escalate the atrocities committed against the
>Kosovo Albanians.
>
>What was Albright's response? According to the AFP guy, she just sort of
>waved her hand and dismissed the question.

Did he report this? Or did it just pass as one of those intimate off-the-record moments between journalists & officials?

Doug



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