1.   The small village appears to be under constant threat of a landslide from the steep slopes immediately behind.

2.   Albanian military officials said that the bombed villages appeared to include Gorozhupe, Planeje, Verbnice and possibly Zhur.

3.   They said the village appeared to have been recently abandoned, and they found some of the same white powder stored in clay jars there.

4.   Those villages do not appear on any military maps, Quigley said, although they may be names used only by the local population.

5.   By Thursday night, the villages appeared calm, although the smell of burning tires was in the air.

6.   German officers said both villages appeared to have been targeted in a single operation, during which Serb paramilitaries burned and buried some of the victims that night.

7.   The two villages appear to be key strongholds of the militants in the area.

8.   The villages en route appeared to be deserted, many of the houses apparently abandoned even as they were being built.