Today marks the ninth anniversary since the 1999 Chief of an OSCE Mission to Kosovo, William Walker accused Serbs of massacring 45 civilians in a Kosovo village of Racak, an event used by the Clinton administration as a pretext to initiate a bombing campaign against Serbia claiming that Serbian forces were out to genocide 2 million Kosovo Albanians.

Nine years into this conflict, over two thirds of Serbs have been expelled or killed by the Muslim Albanians of Kosovo and the remaining Serbs are forced into ghettos reminiscent of Jews in the Nazi Germany.

However, the then head of the international monitors in Kosovo, William Walker, said that he had "absolutely no doubt" that Serb troops were killers even though the forensic experts, reported by the Berlin Zeitung, found that there is no proof that unarmed civilians were murdered in Racak.

The controversial events in Racak occurred after an intervention against armed Muslim Albanian separatists based in the village who were responsible for murder of 6 policemen. After securing the perimeter of the village, Serbian police was attacked by armed Muslim Albanians and in a day long battle that was filmed by the crew from Associated Press and Reuters, Serbian troops pulled out of the village.

The next day, after being told by the armed Muslim gunmen who occupied the village that the Serbs have massacred the civilians, William Walker stated that he has "absolutely no doubt" that Serbs were the killers.

On the 18th of January, William Walker was ordered out of Serbia by the Milosevic regime. Two days later, U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO's supreme commander, and German Gen. Klaus Naumann, the chairman of NATO's military committee, met with Milosevic for several hours and told him that the alliance is prepared to attack.

William Walker is an experienced foreign service officer with a notable mission in Honduras from 1980 to 1982, when the Central American country was Washington's secret conduit for weapons and other support to right-wing Contras fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua. Walker was also a member of the  U.S. Embassy's political section in El Salvador from 1974 to 1977, a period of violence in that country.