Ken Bacon Kosovo Quotations

Basically, it will allow us to increase the intensity of the air campaign over Kosovo and Yugoslavia.

We could have part of an enabling force on the ground in Kosovo within several days of a decision to do so.

We did attack a Yugoslav army unit in central Kosovo that's been involved in some of the ethnic cleansing activities. We also attacked a major ammunition dump in Kosovo.

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.

There are heavy concentrations of artillery along the border between Kosovo and Macedonia. There are only 14 roads into Kosovo -- two from Macedonia. These roads are mined. The bridges are mined. There are built in ... tank and artillery positions along lines of communication.

The Yugoslavs thought that they could wipe out the Kosovo Liberation Army in five to seven days. They have not succeeded in doing that,

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.