German troops 'hid like rabbits' during rioting May 10, 2004BY TONY PATERSON BERLIN -- German troops serving with the KFOR international peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo have been accused of hiding in barracks "like frightened rabbits" during the interethnic rioting that erupted in the province in March. A hard-hitting German police report sent to the Berlin government last week criticizes the troops for cowardice and for their failure to quell the rioting in which 19 people died and about 900 others were injured. The charges -- the most serious made against the German army since World War II -- have been...