Noah talks with R. Jeffrey Smith of the Washington Post about a Yugoslavia military trial, where today 3 Serb soldiers were found guilty of killing an elderly ethnic Albanian couple. The couple was slain last year in Kosovo. Smith says the conviction is extraordinary and unprecedented -- the first trial of Serb soldiers accused of committing murder during the war in Kosovo, convicted not for war crimes but for murder, by their peers in the Yugoslav military. The trail of evidence that led to the charges and today's conviction was gathered by a Serb Army Colonel, who was so appalled by the cold-blooded killings that he made it his personal mission to investigate the murders and bring the soldiers to trial.
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