________________________________________________________________________________ Whooow! It was a hot night in Belgrade (a.k.a. Bombay)! Around 02:10 am I opened the window to breath some fresh air, when I heard the TERRIBLE noise of planes flying over... On the moonlight I saw two jets, flying at around 2000 meters, heading towards the southern suburbs of the city. A moment after that, HEAVY AA fire struck them! The whole sky was burning! The mixed noise of AA fire and planes flying over was almost unbearable... On the horizon, one plane started to drop IC decoys, but I could not spot the rocket chasing him... 53 missiles fell in total! Two in my neighborhood! One of those did not exploded (I heard only a lightning-like CRACK sound). Army blocked the whole area and now they are deactivating it... The second one was apparently hit by the AA defence and it exploded in the air over my neighborhood. I heard that one man in my street was hurt by the missile fragment. Two civilian houses were totally devastated in Ralja, a village near Belgrade (one woman and two little girls were killed). More than 15 missiles fell on Batajnica suburb (mostly hitting military airfield for the zillionth time). Also, the Strazevica hill in Rakovica suburb was hit. NATO acknowledged only two days ago that Strazevica hill was the target (according to them, there is an AA command center there), but to my counting it was at least 35th time Strazevica was bombed in the last two months. ...And all of that only in one night... I predict that the following night will be even worse (every time Victor Chernomyrdin comes or leaves Belgrade, NATO "greets" him with a heavy bombing raid). Oh, and one more thing... British band Blur is an |ABSOLUTE| hit in Belgrade these days! Here's why: BLUR SNUB NATO STEALTH BOMBER LAUNCH Blur singer Damon Albarn refused permission for the US military to unveil their latest stealth bomber to the strains of the band's brilliant Song 2. The track, featured on their Blur album gave the band their biggest US hit and was even used in an episode of the Simpsons. But when the Pentagon asked to use the track and its famous "Wah-hoo" chorus at the launch of a new stealth bomber, the band refused. "It was for the official unveiling of the Stealth bomber that just got shot down in Serbia," says Albarn. "I like the idea of some Serb going 'wah-hoo' after that!" ;-) Greetings, Slobodan Markovic | http://solair.eunet.yu/~twiddle Internodium Project | http://www.internodium.org.yu ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 1999 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org