Polish soldiers and the legacy of Depleted Uranium.

But the Serbians were the first to land a stealth.How did this happen?Is it true far more stealts were hit using old radars?

SKORENOVAC, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Col. Zoltan Dani was behind one of the most spectacular losses ever suffered by the U.S. Air Force: the 1999 shooting down of an F-117A stealth fighter.

"We used a little innovation to update our 1960s-vintage SAMs to detect the Nighthawk,'' Dani said. He declined to discuss specifics, saying the exact nature of the modification to the warhead's guidance system remains a military secret.

"The Americans entered the war a bit overconfident,'' Dani said. "They thought they could crush us without real resistance.''

AVIANO AB, ITALY, DAY 4: MARCH 27, 1999. So far, so good, if you can call flying a seven-hour mission and holding over the Adriatic behind a KC-135 in an A-10 while a NATO airborne armada wreaks havoc over Serbia...

Combat losses

One F-117 has been lost in combat, to Serbian forces. On 27 March 1999, during the Kosovo War, the 3rd Battalion of the 250th Missile Brigade under the command of Colonel Zoltán Dani, equipped with the Isayev S-125 'Neva-M' (NATO designation SA-3 'Goa'), downed F-117A callsign "Vega 31," serial number 82-806 with a Serbian improved Neva-M missile.[22][23] According to NATO Commander Wesley Clark and other NATO generals, Serb air defenses found that they could detect F-117s with their radars operating on unusually long wavelengths.

An American F-117 stealth fighter went down in Yugoslavia tonight, the first allied loss in the four-day Balkan conflict, even as NATO officials announced a broad new phase of the air assault on Serbian targets.

1/12/2006 - DAYTON, Ohio -- "The Unthinkable, The Unimaginable Happened: An F-117 was Shot Down in Combat."

The pictures of the downed plane, called by its developers the ''Nighthawk'', were broadcasted on the Serbian radio-television around midnight Saturday and those pictures were quickly taken over by the American TV network CNN.

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This is an Afghanistni doctor talking about the affects of DU on the afghan people. Are their any simular cases in Serbia?

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"There were orders for all military levels: no one must approach military wreckages, junk or any other military material", general Del Veccio said in today's interview for "Corriere Della Sera" journal.

The US Defense Department says its aircraft are firing depleted uranium (DU) munitions in the conflict with Serbia.

BELGRADE — Already in Serbia the effects of NATO’s depleted uranium munitions are apparently being felt by members of the Yugoslav Army who fought in Kosovo. Two former soldiers were recently discovered to have cancerous eye tumors. The Belgrade weekly tabloid Nedeljni Telegraf recently reported that three officers from the Army’s Pristina Corps died of leukemia, while 10 others now suffer from the disease; four of them terminally. They join the dozens of soldiers involved with the wars in the Balkans now sick from what is being referred to as “Balkans Syndrome.”
Unfortunately, it wasn’t until soldiers from Western countries began dying of cancer and getting sick that depleted uranium in the Balkans became an international issue for the corporate media. A fact not lost on people here.

“The West wouldn’t give a damn if their troops weren’t getting sick and dying,” says 53 year-old taxi driver Nenad Bulatovic. “If we get sick, that’ s collateral damage. We call that America’s Milosevic Syndrome.”

Belgrade, April 21 - The report of the Yugoslav Ministry of development, science and environment on the consequences of the NATO bombardment on the FR of Yugoslavia's environment, including a chapter on the use of Depleted Uranium 238 was presented today at the Yugoslav government.

Stressing that the consequences cannot be considered as catastrophic for the entire country, but that it could be spoken about the extremely negative influence of the bombardment for certain industrial zones and chemical plants with toxic materials, Dr Sljapic pointed out that those facts give the aggression the character of "a chemical war against population and living creatures".

She stressed that the aggression against the FRY was "flagrant violation of numerous principles of the international treaties and conventions in the field of the environment protection".