The general, nodding, replies that more than 450 planes and 150 missiles have been launched "against our small country" in the first hours of the NATO strike.

A NATO strike on Tripoli damaged parts of a university complex.

Mr. Milosevic, like the Serbian authorities at the time, said the NATO strikes had killed all the victims.

But this approach begs the question: What exactly did last week's NATO strike achieve?

The same day, a NATO strike hit a government command center in Tripoli.

This was the second time in three days that Mr. Akashi had vetoed a NATO strike.

The attack was the deadliest NATO strike on Pakistani soil since the start of the war in Afghanistan.

Businesses and apartments were damaged in a NATO strike on a missile depot.

Intended to cow the Serbs, the limited NATO strikes have had the reverse effect.

The American and Pakistani accounts of the NATO strikes vary widely.