According to intelligence sources, Mr Simatovic is the link between President Milosevic and the freelance paramilitaries employed by the Belgrade regime since the first war in Croatia in 1990. What is known is that he is head of Serbian state security, which provides Mr Milosevic with bodyguards. Intelligence sources say Mr Simatovic acts as the go-between for Mr Milosevic and Arkan, the Serb paramilitary leader indicted as a war criminal for his actions in the Bosnian war. Franki's Boys had their headquarters in a house at the back of a dress shop in what used to be Marshall Tito Street in Djakovica. In their haste to leave before NATO troops arrived they left behind payslips from the Pristina corps of the Yugoslav federal army.
Telltale graffiti is scrawled on the walls.
Franki's Boys are known by their cowboy hats worn over ski masks, and the Indian stripes they paint on their faces. Mr Dedag can't recall the day they came without crying. A few weren't masked but they had their faces painted with stripes. There was maybe 30 of us including the women and children. I buried my head in his chest and they didn't see me.