They were. And contrary to Totten’s assertions, HRW and other NGOs (yes I know) along with Serbs and Christians have detailed atrocity after atrocity AFTERWARDS by Kosovars against Christians and Serbs. To wit:

1. Killing elderly Serbs in “Muslim areas.”
2. Burning down and desecrating monasteries and churches and cathedrals.
3. Killing practicing Christians.
4. All mosques funded by the Wahabbis.
5. The usual hate-filled spewing on the mosques by Jihadis (Totten IIRC does not speak either Arabic or the various stew of slavic languages in Kosovo, nor has he attended many Mosques so would have no idea of what goes on other than his naive and idealistic fantasies).
6. The KLA who are both gangsters and Jihadis dominate the Kosovar government and are linked extensively to Osama bin Laden, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Hezbollah, Iran, with ties going back to the early 1990′s.

In short, Michael J. Totten reminds me of the people who toured Stalin’s Potemkin villages in the 1930′s and proclaimed the “future is here.” EVERY OTHER REPORTER including those from the NYTIMES and WAPO found the hard core gunmen who really run things scary and jihadi. Various Congressional hearings and people like Lawrence J. Wright “The Looming Tower” have documented KLA-Jihad links, as has Andrew McCarthy (“Willful Blindness”).

[I don't doubt that Totten's hosts were nice people not screaming about Jihad. They don't hold power -- it's the KLA who have the guns and do the killing. I'm sure you could have found "nice" Germans and Soviets in the 1930's as well.]