The staff and the individuals here are all pretty close. Two hundred people came in September for a party for 18 people. We all wanted to get together one more time.

I think most people realize how much we have changed over the last 30 years. There's a lot of sympathy, and everyone is concerned about where all the people will go.

They haven't adapted very quickly, but they are adapting. You can tell there's a little bit of depression and acting out -- but we expected that.

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

The party pretty much spreads throughout the entire house, except in the bedrooms. But there are people in the living room, outside, in the kitchen, in the kids' play room, all over.

This targeting of AU personnel contravenes the status of the African mission as an independent third-party, strongly supported by the U.N. Security Council,