[ALBSA-Info] NYT

[Agron Alibali]

The New York Times 
December 12, 2001, Wednesday, Late Edition - Final 
Section A; Page 12; Column 5; Foreign Desk 


World Briefing Europe: France: Trial On Leak Of Nato Plans 

Agence France-Presse 


A French army major went on trial on charges of handing over NATO bombing plans to Serbia during the buildup to the 1999 war in Kosovo. Maj. Pierre-Henri Bunel is being tried at a special military court in Paris and faces a maximum 15-year prison sentence if convicted. Major Bunel, who was attached to NATO headquarters in Brussels, is accused of meeting with a Serbian agent in 1998 and handing over information about planned NATO targets. He said in court that he "had no intention of harming either NATO or France" and that he was acting on orders received in an anonymous telephone call from a military authority as part of efforts to convince Serbia that NATO would carry out threats to bomb if Serbia's abuse of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo did not stop. 


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