Kosovo...1999

Refugees who were released from a Serb prison are loaded by NATO soldiers into a military truck in the Kukes town square, Albania Monday, May 24, 1999, to be taken hours south of the border. As many as 1,000 men, who said they had been taken away by the Serbs from refugee convoys with their families in the past month and put in prison, have crossed into Albania over the weekend with stories of brutality and fears that they will not find their loved ones. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

A group of U.S. soldiers fortify an observation post on the Rinas airbase at Tirana airport, Saturday, May 22, 1999. Some six thousand U.S. troops have been deployed to Albania, as NATO discusses a plan for a peacekeeping force in Kosovo of about 50,000 troops. The United States would probably contribute 7,000 to 8,000 troops. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic).

Sgt. 1st Class Dave Schad, 37, of Springfield, MO, sews his trousers as Sgt. Guadalupe Stratman of Stockdale, TX., fills the magazine of her M-16 rifle, outside a tent in the Rinas airbase on Tirana's airport, Albania, Sunday, May 23, 1999. Some six thousand U.S. troops were deployed to Albania earlier this year. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic).

A Kosovo Liberation Army soldier holds a bouquet of flowers at the edge of a stage given to her by a Kosovar refugee during a concert for ethnic Albanian refugees and residents of Kukes, Albania Thursday May 20, 1999. KLA soldiers continue to battle Serbian forces along the Albania-Kosovo border near the refugee crowded Kukes area and in pockets inside Kosovo. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

U.S. Army Spc. Steven Gonzales removes a yellow ribbon from a tree in the town square during a welcome home parade in his honor Saturday, May 22, 1999, in Huntsville, Texas. The 22-year-old cavalry scout was one of three soldiers captured March 31 by Yugoslavian troops. He was released 32 days later.(AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Captain Christophe Merten of the French army greets ethnic Albanian refugee children at the Stenkovec refugee camp near Skopje, Macedonia Friday May 21, 1999. Every day Captain Merten and his brigade walk to a hill above the camp to meet with refugees and have tea. The camp was built by French soldiers and currently has over 18,000 residents. (AP Photo/John McConnico)