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Article: First wave of refugees settles at Fort Dix.
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- May 9, 1999
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FORT DIX, N.J. _ One morning in March, Fadil Krasniqi was driving a taxi and eking out a living in Pristina, the capital city of Kosovo.
By afternoon, he and his family were homeless.
``I was in a pizzeria and the Serbs came in and started shooting,'' said Krasniqi, as he sat in a cafeteria at this Army installation. His wife and three children watched him with dreary faces. ``They used explosive bullets. You would hear one explosion from the firing of the gun, and then you heard another one when the bullets hit the walls.''
Gesturing, he described how the family was ordered at gunpoint to leave their house. They had only the clothes on their ...