"All the while, of course, said Bosnian Muslims were being herded by Christian Serbs into concentration camps that were centers of torture and systematic killing of a cruelty Europe believed it had forever banished."
Roger Cohen in yesterday's NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/opinion/26cohen.html His use of "of course" is indicative; Stalin used it in his speeches as well ("kak' izvyestno"), invariably to support some of his more outrageous falsehoods.
