An old Kosovar Albanian man, wearing a traditional hat, waves with an American flag in front of a mosque while celebrating the independence of Kosovo in the Albanian side of the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008. Kosovo's predominantly ethnic Albanian leadership proclaimed independence from Serbia Sunday with Western backing. Serbia has had no formal control over Kosovo, whose two-million population is 90 percent Albanian, since NATO bombing drove out Serb forces in 1999 to halt their killing and ethnic cleansing in a two-year war against separatist rebels. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)