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Thursday, April 29, of last year, a rainy day in Kosovo, should really have been the last of Besim Kadriu's life. That morning, in the Albanian sector of the town of Mitrovica, Serb paramilitaries torched the house the 21-year-old economics student shared with his pregnant wife Valbona. Watching the inferno from a distance, Kadriu was confident Valbona had escaped but was unsure where she had fled. He set off on foot for the village of Zaza, a few miles away, on a hunch she would be there with her two brothers. She wasn't, but a large...
Besim Kadriu still keeps that photo in his wallet as a lucky charm, for while some people would opt for death rather than disfigurement, he considers himself a fortunate man. For one thing, a couple of centimeters farther back and that Serb bullet would have hit his brain. For another, he was reunited with Valbona and survived for three months in the care of relatives. He was still avoiding mirrors when the Kosovo Force peacekeepers arrived. But luckiest of all--and thanks to the efforts of an American doctor and a British military medic with a bag full of electronic...
...Yugoslav leadership--30 to 70 young men claiming to represent the 70,000 to 80,000 ethnic Albanians still living under Slobodan Milosevic in southern Serbia. Their group's name: Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, or, in Albanian, the UCPMB. Since January it has staged ambushes on Serb police, provoking reprisals. The killings and the sudden emergence of the UCPMB bear a striking resemblance to the maneuverings three years ago of the Kosovo Liberation Army. "This is an unfinished war," says an Albanian editor in Pristina. Indeed, the Presevo Valley is expected to share...
...region is predominantly ethnic Albanian, but like Kosovo before last year's NATO bombing, its power structure is dominated by Serbs. It was at the Jan. 27 funeral of two woodcutters allegedly executed by Serb security forces that nine former K.L.A. soldiers first declared their intention to resist. "We have no other option than to protect ourselves," says the UCPMB founder, a 35-year-old former car mechanic who insists on anonymity. Belgrade's plans remain unclear, though NATO intelligence has reported an increase in police and army activity along the Kosovo border. Officially, Belgrade calls the group U.S.-backed...
...Nonetheless, when Serb forces withdrew from Kosovo at the end of the war with most of their heavy weaponry still intact, it became clear that the air campaign had been singularly ineffective in its primary aim of destroying Milosevic's military capability inside Kosovo. Still, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, "there's no compelling evidence to back up this spy claim - these allegations are based primarily on the first two weeks of the war, and it has to be said that in that phase NATO's targets would have mostly been quite predictable." More interesting, perhaps...