The photos were of mass graves at Izbica and Pusto Selo. Milosevic & Serb apologists screamed fake. After the war, the bodies weren't there, but the Albanians in the area said the Serbs had come back, dug them up and left. More screams of fakery--can't trust those Shqiptars anyway, right? Well, now the Serbs themselves have dug up 800 Albanian bodies inside Serbia, to include some positively identified as Izbica and Pusto Selo massacre victims.
The Serbian Interior Minister says that Milosevic in a March 1999 meeting ordered the mass graves in Kosovo to be cleaned up. The bodies of Albnaian men, women, and children are now being returned on a fairly routine basis from where they've been exhumed in Serbia back to their relatives in Kosovo--its announced every month or so on the UNMIK we-site. The murders were real, the graves were real, and the cover-up has been uncovered.
You can read a little about it here (includes some observations on how it was done by a Belgrade police captain)or check out the UNMIK press releases @ www.unmikonlin.org or read this story about the three American citizens with theri hands tied behind their backs who were murdered by Serbs and buried nearby or do a google search for the sites in Serbia where the Albanian bodies were transported and re-buried: Petrovo Selo and Batajnica.
This one's a little older, but has some observations on the impact on family memebers.
Those were ethnic Albanian mercenaries who went into Serbia after the Kosovo war. The had refused NATO's call to disarm, according to a fellow named and quoted fighter. Those brothers fought with the KLA and entered Serbia during a state of emergency. They put themselves in that position. If they stayed in America they'd have been fine; if they stayed at their mother's house in Kosov, they'd have been fine. Instead they seemed to want to continue the war in southern Serbia.
Anyone seeng the photos and capable of using advanced features of Photoshop was screaming "fake" also. "Recon" photos were sloppily done, the shadow lengths were not matching the season and time of the day, and temperature signature was wrong.
The question is: if those were indeed mass graves, why the photos were doctored?
THE HAGUE, April 24 (AFP) - Several photos distributed by NATO and said to show possible mass graves in Kosovo could be fake, the Dutch daily Algemen Dagblad said Saturday.
The paper based its claims on analyses carried out by a map expert specializing in the study of satellite photos, who examined four pictures taken over the Kosovo villages of Pusto Selo and Izbica.
NATO showed two photos of each village. In each case, one of the photos shows the area before the alleged graves were dug and the second, taken several days later, appears to show a number of freshly dug graves. According to the expert, identified only as E. Burie, the most recent photos displayed worrying inconsistencies.
He said that in the second picture of the Pusto Selo village, there is a house which does not feature in the image taken a few days before. He said: "Either the Kosovars had time between the massacres to build a house in a few nights, or the photo has been manipulated." He said the photo of Izbica showing rows of graves had "touch-up work which could only be the result of two different pictures being superimposed."
Burie, who runs a studio in the central Dutch town of Almere specialising in work for the country's top publishers and for military maps, could not be reached for comment.
Italian General Giuseppe Marani, a NATO spokesman, said on April 18 that the alliance had photos of 43 sites in Kosovo which featured "very clear rows of individual tombs facing southeast, that is, towards Mecca."
Serbs digging individual graves pointing toward Mecca?
One needs Florida temperature IQ to believe such bold faced lie.