From: Ed Wolfe 
Subject: SNET: [piml] 50 Americans Allegedly Killed on Mt. Tara
Date: 6 Apr 1999 07:49:19 -0400
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DAY 13, UPDATE 2
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Apr. 5, 1999; 8:00PM EST


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1. At Least 50 Americans Allegedly Killed on Mt. Tara; Clinton Lays
First
Bricks of New Wall of Tears

PHOENIX, Apr. 5 - At least 50 American soldiers, not counting the downed
US
Air Force pilots, have died so far in Clinton's needless and undeclared
war
against Serbia, TiM has learned, based on several new independent
confirmations of two of our earlier stories.  Yet the American president
continues to maintain his wall of silence despite having already laid a
foundation for a new wall of tears. 

We first reported on Apr. 2 that a combat plane and two U.S. helicopters
carrying 50 U.S. troops were shot down over Mt. Tara by the Yugoslav
anti-aircraft defenses, shortly after midnight on Apr. 1 (see Day 10,
Update 1). Mt. Tara is about 200 km (125 miles) southwest of Belgrade
(see
the map).  The plane went down first, at which point two helicopters
took
off from a base in Bosnia to rescue the pilot, but were also shot down.

Two days ago, we also reported that 19 American soldiers were already
enroute home in body bags, based on a front page story in the Athens
daily,
"Athinaiki" (see Day 12, Update 1).  We have subsequently found out that
several other Greek newspapers carried similar reports last Friday (Apr.
2), with varying American body bag counts.

Now, new sources have also come fourth since our initial reports which
tie
the two stories together.  The 19 bodies which the "Athinaiki"
referenced
are a part of the 50 Americans who died when the two helicopters were
shot
down over Mt. Tara.  All were killed, but some bodies were blown away
and
could not be shipped back, our sources say.  

Even though the Yugoslav news agency, Tanjug, reported the news of the
Mt.
Tara shoot downs right away (on Apr. 1), Serb state TV broadcast the
news
only this evening for the first time.  It said that the bodies of the
dead
American soldiers' were shipped by the Yugoslav authorities to
Macedonia,
from where the U.S. military secretly transported the bodies to the
military hospital in Thessalonika, in preparation for having them flown
back to the U.S.

Given the high number of casualties in a single operation, one of our
U.S.
military advisers speculated that the downed helicopters could have been
of
the "Chinook" type, which are apparently large enough to carry that many
troops during a rescue mission.

Reacting to the news reports, the Greek General Army Staff's
spokesperson
today once again "categorically" denied reports of U.S. military coffins
being transferred to Thessalonika.  To which TiM offers the same comment
as
in our Day 12, Update 1, report:
---
TiM: "Looks like Washington's 'lie and deny' PR tactic is in vogue in
Athens, too. Wonder how the Greek policemen just happen to meet the
American transport at the border and escort it to the Thessalonika
hospital?  But the truth has its way of escaping even the NWO Big
Brother.
Regrettably, the tragic truth, this time."

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