The Prime Minister of an actual country, albeit a tiny and recent one (independent since 2008), is the head of a "mafia-like" smuggling and human organ ring, according to a Guardian story citing a Council of Europe report on organized crime. That's right, Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi is "identified as the boss of a network that began operating criminal rackets in the runup to the 1999 Kosovo war." The report says that a "handful" of Serbs were killed for their organs by this criminal group. This network still holds sway over the country's government. This has to be a new low for a politician in modern times, at least since Liberia's Charles Taylor of the 1990s. While the Serbs, at that time Kosovo was a part of Serbia, did commit significant barbarities including mass killings, little attention was paid on Kosovan fighters who also did some nasty stuff of their own. This is the latest revelation about turmoil and violence in the Balkan region that made up the former Yugoslav Republic. Meanwhile, Kosovo's government denies the allegations.