61.   The next night, the villagers say, Uzbeks soldiers led by Hashim swept through their village, gathering up all the guns.

62.   The next night, the villagers say, the Uzbeks returned, yelling and shooting and dragging men from their beds.

63.   The other was the bin-Laden-run camp, the local villagers say and the documents they left behind indicate.

64.   The villagers said the Uzbeks had not come to disarm them, but appeared to be trying to scare the Pashtuns into leaving the region forever.

65.   The villagers said they caught no glimpse of the tens of thousands of refugees whose waiting column was suddenly turned back in the middle of the night Wednesday.

66.   The villagers said they did one other thing that may or may not survive the brutality of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

67.   The villagers said they first learned that they had been handling toxic material when local journalists arrived two weeks after it was dumped to take pictures of them.

68.   The villagers said they had returned to inspect the damage, guard their possessions and obtain food to eat.

69.   The villagers said they were frightened by bursts of gunfire and the explosions of mortars on the edge of the village.

70.   The villagers say that they are too afraid to move.