 Complete the following phrase:  Further details were provided on 9 April by Rudolf Scharping, the German Defence Minister, at a press conference held in Bonn. He presented maps containing the names of towns and villages which showed arrows representing Yugoslav army and police militia units progressively encircling Kosovo in a horseshoe-shaped pincer movement. He was quoted as saying that: Operation Horseshoe provided clear evidence that President Miloševic sic had long been preparing the expulsions from Kosovo and that he had simply used the time gained by the 