21.   The greatest fear is, however, that the Serbian military is planning an offensive against the rebels and the ethnic Albanian villages under their control.

22.   The rebels have attacked the police and military and moved into a swath of Albanian villages across the north part of the country.

23.   The Serbian police, backed by the Yugoslav army, started an all-out offensive against Albanian villages that were suspected of harboring guerrillas.

24.   The scene mirrored the reception received by NATO troops as they passed through Albanian villages, except that the crowds were smaller and more subdued.

25.   The village of Shipolje was quiet, and it appeared Serb police had essentially taken over the Albanian village.

26.   They argue that Albanian villages are only being attacked now because they harbor rebel terrorists, and they deny that civilians are suffering.

27.   They create film footage of Albanian villages beset by sniper fire.

28.   They had based themselves in an abandoned Albanian village, near Djakovica in western Kosovo, and had been able to cook for themselves.

29.   Velika Dobranja is a purely Albanian village set in the Kosovo plains, a majority-Serb town.

30.   Yugoslav forces continued their shelling overnight of Albanian villages just across the Kosovo border, which Belgrade believes are being used as staging areas for the rebel forces.