Former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte claims in her recently-released book that in 1999, while NATO’s bombing campaign was underway, Kosovar Albanians abducted up to 300 Serbs and proceeded to surgically remove their kidneys before killing them. The kidneys were then sent off to wealthy Arabs in the Middle East in need of organ transplants.

Though it is the Balkans where anything’s possible, it sure sounds like horseshit to me—it has all the Big Lie characteristics of Jewish blood libel. Carla Del Ponte has gotten a deservedly bad reputation for her highly politicized and self-aggrandizing style, so the source of the story doesn’t add confidence. Regardless, I do hope there’s a proper investigation carried out so that this kind of stuff can be verified one way or another—there’s already enough rumor and mythology poisoning the air in the benighted Balkans.