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YUGOSLAV GENERAL SAYS HE WAS TOLD TO BLOW UP BLAIR'S HELICOPTER

BELGRADE, General Nebojsa Pavkovic said an english newspaper he was ordered to blow up Blair's helicopter at Petrovac airport in Skopje in May 1999. "I was under pressure to do it since Nato was destroying Yugoslavia. But since I did not have the precise possibility of monitoring the airport, my main worry was massive civilian casualties", said Pavkovic to the Sunday Times. Cherie Blair was with her...

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Rome, Italy, 07/02/2001 16:48
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