Kosovo has declared independence and is now its own country. As we drove through towns we could smell the sulfur from the gunfire and fireworks that filled the night sky in celebration of the infant country. We have heard reports of troubles in northern kosovo where the serbs and albanians are already fighting over the whole ordeal.... glad we got out of nothing hill when we did. Apparently the border gate we would check on in our missions up there has now been burned down from a riot. Things in southern kosovo are still boring though. We got called to a "shots fired" situation last night, but of course when we got there the locals played stupid and no one knew a thing. Oh oh.. to top it off... i love this. One of our interpretuers is playing both sides. There is a militia force that acts like the mob down here. They protect your home if you pay them, if you dont they break bones. His cousin leads one of those forces, and covers for him all the time..... they are so short on terps though that they cant afford to fire him. We take him with us but we refuse to use him, we make him sit in the humvee all night. Freakin jacoupe scum.
