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- STATION COMMENT: COS CONSIDERS HIMSELF A RATHER
SEASONED “WAR CORRESPONDENT,” HAVING COVERED WARS IN
NICARAGUA, CROATIA, AND BOSNIA. HOWEVER, IF COS HAD NOT
PERSONALLY WITNESSED AND PHOTOGRAPHED THE HELLISH SCENES
THAT TRANSPIRED AT SREBRENICA OVER PAST SEVERAL DAYS,
HE WOULD NOT HAVE BELIEVED HUMAN BEINGS CAPABLE OF CON-
CEIVING, MUCH LESS CARRYING OUT, SUCH MONSTROUS ACTS. COS
BELIEVES HISTORY WILL RECORD THE MASSACRE AT SREBRENICA
AS THE MOST BARBARIC ACT OF GENOCIDE IN EUROPE SINCE
WWII. - ADMIN: COS INCURRED THE FOLLOWING REIMBURSABLE
EXPENSES DURING HIS 8–18 JULY 1995 TDY TO SREBRENICA
AREA:
-- PER DIEM: SINCE COS SLEPT IN HIS CAR AND ATE
U.N.-SUPPLIED RATIONS, HE INCURRED NO FOOD OR LODGING
EXPENSES.
-- GASOLINE: $250. NO RECEIPTS. PURCHASED ON BLACK
MARKET.
-- FACILITATION PAYMENTS: $1000. NO RECEIPTS. PAID TO
BOSNIAN AND SERB GUARDS AT ROADBLOCKS.
-- ONE (1) SHEEP: $50. PAID BY COS TO BSA SOLDIER
WHO WAS ABOUT TO SHOOT THE SHEEP. COS RETURNED SHEEP TO
RIGHTFUL OWNERS, A HUNGRY GROUP OF REFUGEES. NO RECEIPT.
-- LICENSE PLATES: $25. PAID TO ENTERPRISING YOUNG
FACILITATOR IN SARAJEVO. COS REQUIRED TAGS FOR TRAVEL
INTO BSA-HELD TERRITORY. NO RECEIPT.
-- 7.65MM PISTOL (USED) WITH AMMO: $50. PAID TO BSA
SOLDIER AFTER COS’S BORROWED PPK WAS CONFISCATED AT GUN-
POINT DURING STOP AT BSA ROADBLOCK NEAR SREBRENICA. NO
RECEIPT.