For the senior NATO officers, it was business as usual.

Defending the payments, NATO officers said they went to private companies for use of their property.

"From the outside, the struggle is only politics - who will be the next mayor, and so on," a NATO officer said.

These units are clearly offensive in the view of NATO officers.

NATO officers have said there were some 25 targets in the initial phase of the attacks.

"We had no choice, given the short range of these planes" a NATO officer said.

"We didn't know what to think," a NATO officer said.

This commander would report to a more senior NATO officer.

"We have to work with these people," a senior NATO officer told me.

It is possible, working so close to the border, that the men simply got lost, a NATO officer said.