Police step up security in Kosovo's tense north

Released : Dec 29, 2005 5:59 AM PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro-U.N. and Kosovo police said Thursday they have stepped up security in the tense north of the province following an increase in violent crimes.

Police increased patrols and vehicle checkpoints in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, a town divided between the Serb-dominated north and the ethnic Albanian south, a police statement said.

The town, 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of the capital, Pristina, and divided by a river, has been the scene of violent clashes in the past and has come to epitomize Kosovo's prevailing ethnic divide. Tensions in that part of Kosovo remain high.

Two ethnic Serbs were wounded Monday in separate attacks by unknown assailants. A hand grenade was thrown in the yard of a house in the nearby town of Zvecan on Wednesday, damaging property, but no injuries were reported.

"The past few days have seen an increase in the use of firearms and explosives," said Kai Vittrup, the chief U.N. police commissioner. "This is unacceptable."

He said that as a result "we are further intensifying our security operation" in the northern part of the town, adding that there will be "a zero-tolerance for criminal behavior."

Kosovo, formally a province of Serbia-Montenegro, has been run by United Nations and patrolled by NATO since mid-1999.

There are fears that tensions could soar in the run-up to talks next year on whether Kosovo becomes independent, as demanded by ethnic Albanian majority or remains part of Serbia as favored by Belgrade and Serbs living in Kosovo.

"Serb-dominated north and the ethnic Albanian south" In fact, it's the Islamofacist DOMINATED south that had pushed whatever was left of the Serbian population to the north. The Islamopologists in the UN and NATO are willing to allow the Nazis to push the rest of the Serbs completely out and then wipe the area clean of any Christianity that is left by burning the rest of the churches down into dust. The same happened to the Armenians along the Iran border.

The story suggests that were the Serbs dominate there is violence. The fact is, these are Islamic NAZIS who seek to destroy Eastern Orthodox Christianity and NATO is just watching it happen. What is happening is happening TO the Serbs not BY the Serbs. These are TERRORISTS who seek to create an ISLAMIC STATE. This is TERRORISM.

That's okay. NATO countries will see what Islam is all about in due time. We are seeing it already in France and Germany. They will one day, do what the Serbs had to do in order to save their nation. Mark my words.

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