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WASHINGTON - As a second day of air attacks pummeled Yugoslavia, the Serbian people are more united than ever against NATO's demands, according to a journalist now in Belgrade.

"People are pretty confident that these air attacks are not going to result in any surrender of Yugoslav territory in the Kosovo region," said John Bosnitch, an independent reporter with whom Foxnews.com has been in touch since the first day of NATO attacks.

This confidence may be rooted in the nature of the attacks thus far, which have been mostly limited to military targets.

"The average citizen is not seeing any negative effects from the bombing campaign," said Bosnitch, who reports for Radio Japan and the InterMedia Center. "Although projectiles are flying over Belgrade, we're not seeing any anti-aircraft fire."

During the daylight hours in the Serbian capital, "many people disregarded the air raid warning sirens," he said. "It was a bright sunny day today [Thursday] in Belgrade, and the streets were pretty active .. some were out shopping for food supplies. But it looked like there were a lot of people ... as you could hear bombs falling."

Relocating to an apartment complex in the western part of the city, New Belgrade, Bosnitch said he saw a plume of smoke and heard frequent explosions Thursday night.

Even normally dissident groups seem to be supporting their government, he said. "I've never seen the degree of solidarity for Slobodan Milosevic that I've seen today."

He said Serbs are also being further united by the fact that the military's ranks are filled by regular conscription.

"You can count on almost every family in Yugoslavia having a son or a grandson or a cousin who's in the army or who's in the reserve," he said. "What it does, is it helps to build unity. It's not just some professional soldier out there. It's a member of your family."

Here in the United States, there is similar support among Serbian-Americans.

"My husband's entire family lives in Yugoslavia," Mary Beth Jovanovic wrote to Foxnews.com after we solicited readers' comments. "Yes, we are concerned for their safety and completely against this military action."

But Mrs. Kukaj, a custodian of Albanian origin who has lived in New Jersey since fleeing Kosovo 14 years ago with her husband and two young children, is deeply relieved by the NATO attacks. "We asked for help," said Kukaj, who asked that her first name not be used. "We have it now."

Living under Serbian rule was brutal, she said. "We couldn't even speak our language."

[Note: The above-marked section of the FOX news report did not originate from InterMedia Center reporter John Bosnitch. In 1985, the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija was governed by an elected autonomous assembly dominated by ethnic Albanians. The Albanian language was not banned but was instead commonly heard in government bureaus as well as on city and village streets where it is still heard today. Local newspapers published in both Serbian and Albanian, schools and university faculties conducted classes in Serbian or Albanian -- according to the language of the students, street signs and public notices were (and still are) written in both Serbian and Albanian (with Albanian prominent), and Serbs living in the province complained that even their Yugoslavian passports were issued in Albanian.

Complaints by Kosovo Serbs of human rights abuses by the Albanian-dominated authorities, as well as the unilateral vote of the Albanian-dominated assembly to unconstitutionally give itself the right to secede from Yugoslavia, were cited in 1989 by Slobodan Milosevic, who was then the president of Serbia, as grounds for restricting the autonomy of the Kosovo assembly. Mrs. Kukaj's remarks are inconsistent with the findings of InterMedia Center reporters from Germany, Japan and Canada who have visited the province. The paragraph below returns to the text of the FOX news report...]

At the same time, Bosnitch said Serb residents in Kosovo "seemed more afraid of the KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army] than they were of the [NATO] air raid."

But instead of the peace hoped for by the Atlantic alliance, Bosnitch speculated that the NATO attacks could lead to more war.

"The bombings [might] give the [KLA] enough encouragement that they might try to take major action on the ground against security forces down in Kosovo. [And Serb] security forces themselves may take the bombings as a sign that it's now time for them to go into the forests and off the roads to hunt down the KLA."

Bosnitch concluded that "either one would bring considerable loss of life."

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