DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Let's take a look at "CNN 20" today: NATO bombers take action in Bosnia.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You are clear to drop south side of the river. We have bomb splash, bomb splash.</s>MIKE WILLIAMS, U.N. SPOKESMAN: At 17:22 hours local time this afternoon, bombs were dropped by two NATO F-16 aircraft.</s>JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN MILITARY AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: The United Nations was trying to bring an end to the fighting in Bosnia. There was a terrible bombing of the market place in Sarajevo, and that sort of began to galvanize the United States and NATO that they had to make a stand. And at that point, they began to threaten the Serbs and, if they didn't back off, they were going to be subject to airstrikes. But the Serbs had heard these kind of threats many times before, and they weren't convinced that NATO was actually going to act. But finally, NATO did launch airstrikes against the Serbs, and it was a wake-up call to the Serbs. And in fact, it set the pattern from that point on, that the Serbs were not really easily intimidated by NATO's threats unless NATO was to back them up with some action. It showed that NATO had the will to carry out its threats and to try to impose a peace on Bosnia. And it took a couple of more times of bombing, but eventually the Serbs got the message. They came to the peace table and a lot of people credited the fact that NATO was willing to bomb the Serbs as something that resulted in the Dayton Peace Accords.
CNN 20: NATO Launches Air Strikes, April 10, 1994