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Part III<br />

Chapter IV<br />

Section A; “Merciful Angel”<br />

Serbian capital Belgrade 197<br />

Boshkovich 80<br />

The Serbs would not accept a Nato force; Nato on its 50th anniversary wanted to<br />

show it mattered - and only one outcome was possible 198<br />

It was 24 th March 1999 when the first ―smart bombs‖, as some ―experts‖ like to<br />

call them, were felt in the Federal Republic Yugoslavia. These bombs are considered<br />

smart due to their precision, which is unquestionable, but nobody cared about the size of<br />

the blasts that were produced from explosions. NATO would, for example, hit the Army<br />

Headquarters in the Serbian capital Belgrade, which is in downtown, even if that building<br />

was empty days before bombing. However, civilians on the streets were killed even if<br />

197 Info-sluzba Kosova I Metohije Online, http://www.kosovo.net/news/archive/2007/March_25/2.html<br />

198 BBC Online, ―<strong>Rambouillet</strong> Talks ‗Designed to Fail‘,‖ March 19, 2000,<br />

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/682877.stm

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