Inside the battered building, a former Serb border post seized last month by the rebels, KLA officers huddle around a radio tuning to the frequency of the Serb army.
"They have got fear, you can smell it," said Capt Agim Haziri (37). "There is a big gap between the Serb officers and their men. The men usually say: `Please, I beg you, don't send us there. If you send us there, a curse on your children'. "
This is the forward headquarters of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a kilometre inside Kosovo, and soldiers say they are not surprised at reports that hundreds of Serb troops have deserted. The story of crumbling Serbian morale is what they say they hear on radio.
Reports out of Yugoslavia say that groups of up to 2,000 special force troops have commandeered military and civilian transport and deserted the front, returning to two towns in central Serbia.
Capt Haziri said his soldiers have been battling against Serb special forces for the past seven weeks in the thick woods and rocky defiles on Koshare Mountain. "We hear men shouting at officers, officers shouting at men. One officer was screaming: `What the f--- are you telling me, did you get my order?' "
The reasons for the apparent cracking of Serb morale are not hard to find. Unlike the KLA, which rotates its soldiers in and out of a five-kilometre deep pocket every few days, the Serbs have to stay in the firing line because troop movements are attacked by NATO jets.
The KLA unit on Koshare Mountain has two objectives.
First, it hopes to move down from the top slopes, capturing the foothills and then breaking through to other KLA units which are trapped on the plain of Djakovica below. According to the KLA, NATO strikes have smashed most of the Serb artillery positions and have reduced Serb forces to keeping open only corridors through Kosovo along the main roads.
The second objective is to find a way of pushing soldiers down the side of Koshare Mountain parallel to the border and up the far slope. This would open the way across the border to the Albanian town of Bajram Curri, allowing the KLA to drive in supplies.
Supplies are another problem for the Serbs. Whereas the KLA is getting plentiful supplies of ammunition, the Serbs are seeing theirs cut by NATO attacks on ammunition dumps and on the roads which carry their supply convoys.
And the KLA soldiers say the Serbs have another reason for not wanting to fight. "We are all from Kosovo, some of us can see our houses from here," said one KLA soldier. "But most of the Serbs, they are from other places, they are not from Kosovo. I don't know why they fight, here they have nothing to fight for."
Another 150 Kosovan Albanian refugees arrived in Ireland last night and were accommodated at the army barracks in Kildare town.
This brings to 445 the total number of refugees from Kosovo now in Ireland.