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Office of Spokesman Press Statement by James P. Rubin, December
18, 1998.
64. CNN News, “Milosevic: U.S. Backs Kosovo ‘Terrorists,’ ” CNN.com,
December 16, 1998, http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/
9812/16/kosovo.01/.
65. Kosovo Albanians claimed that this was in reprisal for the killing of 31
KLA members who were ambushed along the Albanian border by the
FRY army. Ibid.
66. Interview with James Rubin, in Little, Moral Combat.
67. On the very day of the Racak incident, two monitors were shot and
wounded in a different part of Kosovo. See CNN News, “At Least
15 Rebels Killed in Renewed Kosovo Fighting.”
68. Attending the meeting were Sandy Berger, Madeleine Albright,
William Cohen, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Henry Shelton,
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency George Tenet, and all
their top aides. Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 70.
69. Ibid.
70. This paper has also been referred to as “October-plus,” ibid., 70–71.
71. Ibid.
72. It is also important to note that January 15, 1999 was already a his-
toric day because the U.S. Senate was beginning its deliberations over
the Articles of Impeachment for President Bill Clinton. Political
opponents would have branded any major shift in Kosovo policy on
this day as a diversion tactic.
73. Gellman, “Slaughter in Racak.”
74. It should be noted that the FRY authorities claimed that many
“terrorists” were amongst those killed in all the three incidents.
However, media framing in the West largely focused on the civilian
side of the casualties.
75. “Inertia in Washington: How the Peace Was Lost,” The Observer,
July 18, 1999, http://www.guardian.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/
0,2763,207923,00.html.
76. Cited in Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 64.
77. Although its central ideas were planned in the State Department
within a few days of Racak.
78. Contact Group, “Statement by the Contact Group,” London, UK,
January 29, 1999.
79. Boyer, Kirk, and Young, War in Europe.
80. Gellman, “Slaughter in Racak.”
81. Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 71.
82. There was some disagreement on the role of U.S. troops in an imple-
mentation force in the Kosovo protectorate, with the United States
finally agreeing to commit troops to this force after initial hesitation.
See ibid., 72.
83. In reality, the ultimatum to agree or face military action would only be
applied to the FRY. It was inaccurately assumed that the Albanian side