It had taken rebel Serb forces only about 10 days to repair the runway at Udbina after a force of about 50 NATO aircraft attacked it Nov. 21, cratering the runway but avoiding parked Serb warplanes.
The raid was in retaliation for a napalm and cluster bomb raid carried out by Serb combat aircraft against the besieged northwestern Bosnian town of Bihac, a UN-declared "safe area."
"It was a little action," said Colonel Milan Tregocivic, an officer stationed in the region where the airstrip is located. "It gave us a little headache, nothing more."
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