צ The Purported Kosovo Atrocities: USA Today's Jack Kelley Invented At Least One. This Kosovo story was made up by journalist Jack Kelley, recently exposed by his own employer as a fraud.

U.N. war crimes investigators have found Yugoslav army documents containing what they say is the strongest and most direct evidence linking the government of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, USA TODAY has learned.
A Yugoslav army, three-ring notebook, found by investigators July 2 near an abandoned military headquarters in Kosovo, contains a direct order to a lieutenant to "cleanse" the village of Cusk near the western Kosovo city of Pec.

The general lesson is that if a piece of journalistic evidence doesn't seem to make sense, consider the possibility of fraud. Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers.

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