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Ultimately, you are positioning yourself as a source of information on the matter, but in doing so, you had better be able to corroborate your version of events with other's observations or you will wind up isolating yourself from any possibility of being credible, and attacking the Forensics report or the OSCE without plausible alternatives isn't a way to skip around the issue. There were some 1.8 million Kosovar Albanians in Kosovo during this time, yet you seem to be proposing that there is no such thing as a non-KLA or non-combatant victim of the Serbs from your post: They weren't just farmers, right? Simple farmers don't have AK-47s with which to defend themselves per your scenario, unless the KLA was arming the LDK as well as getting them bumped off - but the logical flaws inherent in this scenario render it highly unlikely.

Have you ever heard of fighting a loosing battle Hoplite? In this case a loosing battle the would certainly end up in the deaths of the untrained Racak villagers?

As far as unarmed civilians in Kosovo, Albanians consider having a weapon within the home as a point of honor according to the Kanun their unwritten laws. These laws includes an integral part of how to kill an offending individual in what they consider a civilized way. Now since the Communist Albanian Government fell the weapons storage facilities were ransacked by the local population. I saw the events take place which was being filmed by the news media after the wall fell in Germany. A lot of those arms ended up in Kosovo and you know which kind of weapon was the most common Hoplite, the good old AK-47. I have seen enough seized AK-47 and even some Thompson Sub machine guns left over from the last war to fill an office. Some old Nazi weapons as well. For some reason they never leave anything to go to waste in the former Yugoslavia.

Yes there are some Kosovar Albanians who refuse to have arms in the house but not very many. The LDK representatives are very moderate pacifists. You don't hear about any UCK types getting bumped off by the Military wing of the LDK do you? Never the less a lot of LDK supporters like in Racak did fight with the UCK when the Serbs were in control of Kosovo.

Every village has enough hidden arms for the locals to use incase of any future attack by the Serbs. This is a fact. The big thing here is who controls these weapons stashes and I can assure you it is not the LDK. What I have said is far from being unlikely, logical flaws inherent in this scenario, I don't think so.

If you don't want to be tarred with the brush, don't stand on that particular canvas, Wraith - the Serbs are good for the Racak massacre, and no amount of revisionism or sophistry is going to change the matter - not from Milosevic, not from his supporters, and yes, not from you either.

It is not I that is getting tarred Hoplite. If denial and having tunnel vision is the way you wish to be so be it. Remember the UCK had approx. 15 hours of control over Racak after the Serbs left on January 15, 1999 and yes the UCK put them in the ditch or worse.

Time to take the blinders off and look at the whole picture. If not you may just qualify for the OSCE supporter of the year award and get to meet Walkers and the rest of his Fusion cell. The sad thing is that no one would ever hear about it.