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If there are sources as late as December 2005 and January 2006 that call it a "truck hoax" I would venture to say that not everyone is convinced in your verison of the story.

I don't care about them, Kosta, because they're obviously liars or just plain stupid.

Further, you seem to think that endless discussion is a substitute for recognition of facts already in evidence.

No dice, Kosta. It's probable that nothing more will come of the truck cases - the heads of the responsible Serbian government agencies at the time are in the Hague, and the Serbian government isn't about to set aside whining about Kosovo in order to prosecute members of the Police and Army for what they did there under Milosevic - it would be counterproductive to their hopes of continued sovereignity over Kosovo.

The problem I have with the freezer truck story is that 100s of illegal immigrants from the East try to cross the border (East - Bulgaria - Serbia - the EU; it's not that hard to cross from Serbia into the EU/Hungary) every month. Now, let's face it, Serbians do help these people - they're not immune to $$$. It's not uncommon for these smugglers to simply abandon their "load" if the police are nearby.

Personally, over the last 3-4 years, I've read at least 10 news reports on some AFGHANIS being caught at the Serbia-Bulgaria border, on the Danube (Kladovo, no less!). How many don't get caught?

So, theoretically, they could've been non-Albanians (the bodies that were discovered). Some reports go as far as claiming that, indeed, the bodies that were discovered were Afghani citizens. But that's not convenient, is it?

And if I was a Serbian soldier in Kosovo, the last thing I'd do would've been transporting dead bodies in a truck, driving 400 kilometres north with NATO jets circling over my a$$.

And, if I was to come up with a story, I'd make it half-believable at least. This freezer truck story doesn't check out on so many levels.