New York, May 8th (Tanjug) - An American newspaper " Newsweek " finally revealed the truth that the United States of America (USA) deliberately hushed up terrible defeat which they experienced in Kosovo and Metohija in aggression on FR of Yugoslavia.

Under the title " The Kosovo Cover-up", the newspaper in the latest number reveals that he came to the secret report of American Army which had been " hushed up and covered up " and in which is stated clearly that aggression on FR of Yugoslavia, in other words " Kosovo's war " , as they call bombing of Yugoslavia, was complete defeat.

" It was acclaimed as the most successful air campaign ever, a turning point in the history of war," newspaper reminds with the ascertainment that all of that sounded " too good to be truth."

The truth is, according to the " Newsweek ", that " air campaign against the Serbian Army in Kosovo was mostly ineffective " and that it caused only simple " scratches " to the Yugoslav Army.

In what bombing was effective weren't " military, but civil targets," " Newsweek " is openly pointing out to the fact that NATO headed by the US of America waged war on civilians.

" Military planners don't like to talk about the bombing terror against civilians and prefer to call it strategical targets," it is said further in the text which represent the real bomb for the local public from which American military and political circles maliciously covered up the truth with the obvious target to hush up not only his military defeat, but also th crimes committed towards one people.

Covering up the secret, what military circles did, could have the deep consequences against the US of America and policy of future presidents, it is stated critically in text.

According to the suppressed Air Force report of the US of America obtained by Newsweek, the number of targets verifiably destroyed was a tiny fraction of those claimed: 14 tanks, not 120, 18 armored personnel carriers, not 220, 20 artillery pieces, not 450," literally writes author of the text John Barry and Evan Thomas.

Out of the 744 " confirmed " successful strikes by NATO pilots on military targets, with the later investigation and inquiry in the field it is confirmed that evidences exist only of just 58 hit targets, writes American newspaper.

" That damage report has however been buried in Pentagon immediately", authors are remarking and reveal that in the last few weeks while they were writing the text tried to interview some of the officials in the Defence Ministry, but, in spite of the revealing of military report which newspaper got, they tried to deny all or to put the " glaze " on obvious lies.

" Why the truth had been hushed up and covered up," the question in the text is asked and it reminds of similar American behaviour in the Vietnam war, when facts of dead American soldiers had been hiding.

" Newsweek " writes that during the " Balkan war", American general Wesley Clark, the top NATO commander, was under pressure from Washington to " produce " positive bombing results. The pressure were exerting those politicians who were desperate not to commit ground troops to combat and send American troops. The Air Force protested that tanks are hard to hit from 15,000 feet, but Clark insisted. " Now that the war is long over, neither the generals nor their civilian masters are eager to delve into the question - what really happened ", writes " Newsweek."

Strikes practically did that Serbian people, civilians suffer, because it had been hit on electrical-power stations, not tanks in Kosovo and Metohija, stating " Newsweek ".

Serbs didn't suffer a defeat, although Pentagon declared victory and after that hushed up the truth and choked every doubt of how long bombing ranges were.

" The story of the cover-up is revealing the way military bureaucracies twisted the truth - not so much by outright lying, but by reanalyzing the problem and winking at inconvenient facts," writes " Newsweek ", and after that describes to the details how fabrication of lies and covering the facts skillfully arranged in the NATO's headquarters.

After the Yugoslav Gen.Nebojsha Pavkovic's statement that Yugoslav Army has lost only 13 tanks, Clark was dubious and decided to get more precise " picture " from the field. Although he publicly demanted the Pavkovic's claim, Clark got the signal from his own staff that the Serb general " might be right ", " Newsweek " is quoting.

So at the end of June, Clark dispatched a team into Kosovo and Metohija to supervise the field from the helicopter and sees hit targets. Almost 30 experts were sent in that mission, reveals further the same newspaper.

They were known as the " Munitions Effectiveness Assessment Team " with the abbreviations MEAT, which means "meat" in English. After the finishing of their investigation which finished with the conclusions, catastrophic to the NATO and Pentagon, experts started to call themselves "dead meat" in the tone of bitter joke on their account.

Bombing was, they determined, considerable efficient when it was about static targets, as bunkers or bridges.

" But we are in fact spoofed a lot ", American military experts quoted.

Then they quoted all the mistakes in throwing which American pilots committed, concluding that one of the important factor of failed mission was exactly exceptionally good strategy of Yugoslav Army which put under false targets, excellently hide and move their arms, even built fake bridge-model which American pilots were hitting without any success and "destroyed" many times, "Newsweek" is stating from the secret report of American Army.

One of the targets was especially fascinating for the experts from Pentagon. It was SA-9 antiaircraft missile launcher which was made of cardboard for the pasteurized milk.

"It looked perfectly", quoted Americans.

Clark's team found dozens of burnt-out vehicles, but not tanks. When Gen.Clark heard news he became furious. "Newsweek" even quotes his curses with which he received the report from the field, and after that he ordered the team to search the field again, what they did.

Team MEAT returned to Air Force headquarters at Ramstein air base in Germany with 2,600 photographs, with which they confirmed that almost none of damages weren't made to the Yugoslav Army and it's arms.

They briefed Gen.Walter Begert. "What do you mean, we didn't hit the tanks". Clark was astounded also. "That can't be truth", said eager General.

Clark tried to accuse his own team that the team hadn't looked hard enough and that Serbs probably already withdrew destroyed tanks. It can't be, said experts, tanks are heavy 50 tons and traces of their pulling will be seen. "Nothing like that we haven't seen", experts were determined.

Chiefs of NATO's Air Force ordered to prepare a new report. This time that assignment got Brig.Gen.John Corley and he was able to "turn around" the facts, so that they look better and convenient for NATO.

Corley did it obediently, put on the number of 93 destroyed tanks, 153 armored personnel carriers. Those lies tried to support by statements of pilots, which is completely unreliable. For the every stated number one "evidence" which usually lead down to the satellite photograph existed at best case.

"Smoke curtain", that they called new fabricated report the very American officials and NATO officials, which, however, were silent.

Clark's deputy, British Gen. Sir Rupert Smith and his chief of stuff German Gen.Dieter Stockmann both privately cautioned Clark not to accept Corley's report and numbers, reveals further "Newsweek".

The CIA was suspicious also, concluding that "Yugoslav Army after the war was only marginally smaller than it had been before."

"Nobody is very keen to talk about this topic", a CIA official told "Newsweek".

The fake report, after that, chief of American Forces brought together, Gen.Henry Shelton and Defense Secretary William Cohen included in 194-page report of bombing Yugoslavia and of "air strikes" and represented it to the congress's committees.

Brig.Gen.John Corley's report, which had the task to wash the dirty laundry, included a caveat that there is no full data on what proportion of mobile targets were hit. In other words, according to an anonymous official of Pentagon, it was confessed that report "doesn't mean a thing".

In the latest Newsweek's interview with Gen.Clark, he refused to go into details about the quantity of destroyed arms of Yugoslav Army. That is, according to him, unimportant as a counting of grains of beans, for what press and media are accused of.

All of that is far from the naiveté, at the end "Newsweek" is quoting in the text which is for the first time revealed the conspiracy and lies of NATO's aggressors and American military and political top who carried out the brutal aggression on FR of Yugoslavia.