Trying to hush up the truth in their own media

New York, May 9th (Tanjug) - Pentagon would like to hush up the voices of critic and the truth, which was revealed in yesterday's discovery of "The Newsweek"` magazine, about the heavy defeat which NATO and the USA suffered by the aggression on FRY. These efforts of the American military circles were very unskillfully conducted, thus only confirming that the article of the American magazine is true.

The magazine's discovery was like a cold shower in the USA. At the briefing in Pentagon, journalists peppered spokesman, Kenneth Bacon, with questions. He clumsily defended himself and even tactlessly tried to ridicule the authors of the article who revealed the truth about the existence of a secret Pentagon and NATO report and about the true effects and ranges of the intervention in Kosmet and the aggression on FRY, to the American public.

Bacon persistently avoided to give any figure concerning the Yugoslav Army loses. It, as "The Newsweek" stated, did not suffer a defeat, but on the contrary, with skillful strategy and strength, it managed to come out of NATO aggression with mere "scratches".

Skillfully avoiding to enter any dispute about the figures, which could be certainly known to the chief Pentagon representative, Bacon said to the journalists that figures were not "the most important thing" and repeated already known phrase, which the infamous Wesley Clark used, that allegedly, "enough" Yugoslav army weapons were destroyed. Anyhow, the same spokesman said, "The question of the damage estimation is very complex job".

In order to somehow free himself from the aggressive journalists` questions, Bacon gave word to brigade general, John Corley, who joined the lastnight`s briefing in Pentagon by phone from Brussels.

General Corley is the same one from whom, according to "The Newsweek" article, Wesley Clark asked to alter the experts` report. The experts were in Kosmet after the aggression and saw that almost no damage was caused to the Yugoslav army. General Corley obeyed and made the false report with "pumped up figures" about allegedly destroyed arms, which was then, as "The Newsweek" discovered, inserted by the chief of the American General Staff, Henry Shelton, and Defense Secretary, William Coen, in their report for the Congress.

Corely, with utmost hypocrisy and with no arguments, tried to dissuade the journalists about the truthfulness of "The Newsweek" article. However, under pressure of the journalists, he confessed that "his experts" in the field saw 26 destroyed tanks, i.e. wreckages, but then he soon added that the rest 67 tanks, from allegedly destroyed 93 in total, were seen as wreckages in satellite photographs, or were confirmed by the pilots.

According to the secret experts` report, discovered by "The Newsweek", the figure of 26 wreckages of the destroyed arms included parts which were supposed to belong to the artillery weapons. Corely, regardless of that imprecise data, practically confirmed "The Newsweek" statements, because he clearly said that the group of experts which was sent to the field to determine the consequences of bombing the Yugoslav army, saw, at most, 26 wreckages and destroyed arms.

The depth of the lie made by Pentagon and NATO circles, can be seen from the sentence said by the same general who stated that the experts were told to mark down everything, even "the craters made by the bombs". Such explanation reveals that NATO inserted in the balance sheet of supposedly destroyed Yugoslav army tanks even the holes made by NATO bombs.

General Corely, at the end of the briefing, unconvincingly claimed that NATO did not "magnify" the figures about supposed loses of the Yugoslav army, and that he was not aware that there was any report covered up by Pentagon and Brussels.

American magazine "The Newsweek", let's remind ourselves, published in the latest issue, an exclusive story about the existence of a secret, covered up NATO and Pentagon report, in which the highest army and political circles in Washington and Brussels incontestably confirmed that by the end of June, the military intervention in Kosmet and the aggression on FRY, were a complete failure for NATO and Washington.

It is precisely stated, in that covered up report, that during the bombing of Kosmet, NATO army destroyed only 14 and not 120 tanks, 18 armored cars and not 220, and 20 pieces of artillery weapons and not 450, as it was claimed by NATO command and its chief, general Wesley Clark. In order to cover up the truth, Clark and his orderlies fabricated a report, giving false figures and trying to hide the truth about total fiasco of the intervention, "The Newsweek" discovered.

In order to make things worse for the aggressor, the American magazine said accusingly that the intervention was obviously turned towards civilian targets and civilians, which makes quite an accusation on the account of Washington and its present administration.

By the way, NATO and Pentagon lies and the truth about their defeat in Kosmet, which was revealed by "The Newsweek", were extremely modestly covered by the other American media.

"The Washington Post" is on of the rare pro-governmental magazines which only gave a short AP Agency's story about "The Newsweek" discovery, while other television networks, like CNN, did not mention this at all.