11.   Bosnian Serb radio charged Friday that the latest airstrikes hit a hospital and a school where children were in class, causing civilian casualties.

12.   McCurry declined to comment on whether US warplanes were involved in the latest airstrikes or how long they would last.

13.   The latest NATO airstrikes are seen by Britain and France, the major players in the peacekeeping operation, as having backfired disastrously by precipitating the hostage crisis.