The one certainty is that the dirt track linked two Serb villages, and the only people using it were Serbs and NATO patrols.

Only a week before, NATO patrols had failed to stop a grenade attack in a Gracanica market.

That was where a NATO patrol of Canadian and British paratroops spotted them.

Operation Sharp Guard, 1994 - NATO patrols off the coast of the former Yugoslavia to restrict the importation of arms and fuel in an effort to end the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Even in hard-line Bosnian Serb villages where graffiti express support for Arkan, a paramilitary leader charged with crimes against humanity, some people give a friendly wave to NATO patrols.

The video images are being captured by remotely controlled American aerial drones on NATO patrols over the former Yugoslavia.

NATO patrols would then assume the responsibility of protecting Bulgaria against Yugoslav air strikes.

October 13, a Taliban suicide bomber hit a NATO patrol, killing one soldier and 8 civilians.

They contend that NATO patrols meant to insure freedom of movement, rather than checkpoints, may have been in place along the route used by Mr. Karadzic.

Serbs fire two surface-to-air missiles at two British Harrier jets on a NATO patrol over Bosnia but they miss.