Posted on 05/10/2015 3:27:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An armed group battling Macedonian police over the weekend left 22 people dead and aimed to destabilize the country with terror attacks, the country's president declared Sunday in a nationwide television address.
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"Police have prevented coordinated terrorist attacks at different locations in the country that would cause serious destabilization, chaos and fear," Ivanov said. "The members of the group are extremists and criminals with remarkable military training and skills. That's why we have paid such a high price with the loss of lives."
The attacks left at least 22 people dead, including eight police and 14 attackers Interior Ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski said.
Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski told reporters the group of over 40 armed men had planned to attack state institutions, sport events and shopping malls and said they had combat experience both in the region and in the Middle East. ...
Kotevski named five leaders of the armed group, all citizens of Kosovo... hid out in Kumanovo's western neighborhood, where police found a huge arsenal of weapons.
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The region was the center of hostilities between ethnic Albanian rebels and government forces during the ethnic conflict in 2001. That insurgency ended with a Western-brokered peace deal that granted more rights to ethnic Albanians, who make up about a quarter of the country's 2 million people.
Gruevski praised the police, who also saw 37 members wounded. Three dead policemen were later buried in the town of Tetovo, west of Skopje.
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Well, I guess as one says “all citizens of Kosovo” instead of Muslim terrorists, the story can run in the international media.
“Ethnic Albanians” = Muslims
Given their post-WWII history, that’s at least two kinds of crazy going on.
Thanks BenLurkin.
This might have been a provokatsiya by the Serbs (or the Russians)
http://20committee.com/2014/09/14/is-islamist-radicalism-rising-in-serbia/
http://20committee.com/2014/03/29/understanding-provocation/
http://20committee.com/2014/09/25/what-if-everything-you-know-about-terrorism-is-wrong/
Thanks AdmSmith.
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