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43. CNN News, “U.S. Warns Milosevic: Follow through on Troop
Withdrawal,” CNN.com, September 28, 1998, http://www.cnn.
com/WORLD/europe/9809/28/kosovo.02/.
44. Ibid.
45. Members present included Secretary of State Albright, National
Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Defense Secretary William Cohen, and
special envoy Richard Holbrooke.
46. Interview with Richard Holbrooke, in Boyer, Kirk, and Young, War
in Europe.
47. Madeleine Albright, Madam Secretary (New York: Miramax Books,
2003), 388.
48. U.S. Department of State, “Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
Remarks on Kosovo,” October 5, 1998.
49. Cited in Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 44.
50. Federal Government of Yugoslavia, “Press Statement,” October 2,
1998.
51. Congressional Record, “Crisis in Kosovo,” remarks by House
Representative Eliot L. Engel, 105th Cong., 2nd sess., October 1,
1998, 144, H 9212.
52. According to Senator Don Nickles, the U.S. senator from Oklahoma,
“the administration gave most Members of the Senate a briefing yester-
day, but they have a lot of work to do. They have a lot of work to do if
they are going to convince the Congress, if they are going to convince
the American people. They have a lot of leveling with the American
people as far as the expense, as far as the obligation, as far as what the
next step is after the first phase.” Congressional Record, “Kosovo,”
remarks by Senator Don Nickles, October 2, 1998, 144, S 11330.
53. Congressional Record, “On Kosovo,” remarks by House Representative
David Skaggs, 105th Cong., 2nd sess., October 1, 1998, 144, H 9190.
54. Congressional Record, “Violence in Kosovo,” remarks by Senator
Mike DeWine, October 6, 1998, 144, S 11530.
55. Congressional Record, “Developments in Kosovo,” remarks by
Senator Paul Wellstone, October 8, 1998, 144, S 11901.
56. Congressional Record, “Kosovo,” remarks by Senator Tom Daschle,
105th Cong., 2nd sess., October 12, 1998, 144, S 12436.
57. Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 50–59.
58. Interview with Agim Ceku, in Little, Moral Combat.
59. Cited in McAuliffe and Bartlett, The Road to Racak.
60. Interview with General Klaus Naumann, in Little, Moral Combat.
61. U.S. Department of State, Office of Spokesman Press Statement by
James P. Rubin, “Situation in Kosovo,” November 10, 1998.
62. U.S. Department of State, Office of Spokesman Press Statement by
James P. Rubin, “Situation in Kosovo,” December 18, 1998.
63. U.S. Department of State, Office of Spokesman Press Statement by
James P. Rubin, November 10, 1998; and U.S. Department of State,