Major Petr Nový

"What happened during the mission was that [the people] who were on the base were attacked several times as the convoy was moving, and sporadically, not very often, there were some rocket attacks where you could send rockets quite well from the surrounding hills - because the base was down in the valley. They never quite hit the perimeter of the base, the one where we lived, that happened before us and after us, but not behind us. But close by it was hitting. That is, it was maybe a few metres away from the wall or fortunately it landed where nobody was living at the moment."

"This province was relatively safe. There weren't that many shootings, but sometimes there were. There was one story where this centre had just brokered some close air support, where F16s and A10s flew in and cleared the area of people who had attacked them. However, there was still a risk of a landslide there, which became apparent just after we left, when a fortnight later there was a landslide there, where it buried a Czech car and there were dead people. There aren´t roads in the classical sense, but it's a notch in the mountain, where there's a hundred metre drop below you, and if the driver makes a mistake, everyone in the car is dead. Or there's a landslide where nobody can affect it at all."