Posted on 11/21/2006 8:42:47 AM PST by Bokababe
Pristina, 21 Nov. (AKI) - An explosive device went off early on Tuesday morning in a Serbian elementary school in the central Kosovo village of Ropotovo, but there were no casualties, police said. Kosovo police spokesman Veton Elsani said the device was placed in a storage cupboard. Fortunately, the classroom, which can hold up to 200 pupils, was empty, because the teacher didn’t show up for the classes and, apart from material damage, there were no injuries, he said.
“By chance, due to the teacher’s absence, the fifth grade classroom in which the explosion took place was empty and the tragedy was avoided,” said a school official Zivorad Tomic. He said the school is usually attended by 450 ethnic Serb pupils, but all classes were later cancelled.
Violent incidents have lately increased in the breakaway Kosovo province, where majority ethnic Albanians demand independence, as the international community nears a decision on the final status of Kosovo. The province, in which ethnic Albanians outnumber the remaining Serbs by 17 to one, has been under United Nations control since 1999, but Belgrade opposes independence and reaffirmed Serbia's sovreignty over the area in its new constitution, approved recently.
Violence flared in the province when the Kosovo Liberation Army, supported by ethnic Albanians, came out in open rebellion against Serbian rule in the mid-1990s, sparking a brutal Yugoslav military crackdown.
Serbian forces began an 'ethnic cleansing' campaign against up to half of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians in 1999 triggering a NATO bombing campaign that drove Serb forces from the province. Some 800,000 people fled to Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro and approximately 10,000 died in the conflict.
Over 200,000 Serbs have fled Kosovo since it was put under UN control and some 3,000 have been killed or listed as missing, according to the International Red Cross. It believes about 1,500 have been murdered.
REUTERS reports that hand granade was placed into stove:
"A Kosovo police spokesman said the grenade exploded in a stove used to heat the classroom shortly after lessons began at around 7.50 a.m. (0650 GMT) at the Trajko Peric school in the village of Veliko Ropotovo near the eastern town of Kamenica.
"The stove was completely destroyed and some parts of the classroom as well," said spokesman Veton Elshani."
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-21T134723Z_01_L21791378_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOSOVO-SCHOOL-GRENADE.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-9
What a viscious plan. Stoves in Serb enclaves are using coal for fuel. it is so easy to put hand granade under the coal allready put into stove, and just wait for teacher or janitor to set fire in stove. And while children are gathering arround stove to get warm. BOOOM! Instant Independant Kosovo! Free of Christians!
Or the Hand of God protecting his little ones!
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May the Lord Jesus Christ be with your Spirit. (2Tim.4:22)
But... but... Islam is the religion of peace....
Or of "piece" -- as in cut non-Muslims into "pieces"!
To me, the only thing stupider than a non-Muslim saying that "Islam means peace" -- is when a non-Muslim tells an Islamist, "You are corrupting your religion"! That one is just priceless!
How long before we see the same thing here OR an outbreak of smallpox, anthrax, etc.?
Its tough to wage war against muslim radicalism when our State Department and our national press are on the side of the muslim radicals.
They've also been disarmed by the foreign occupation, while some Albanian criminals are permitted to stock and roam around with grenades, mortars, explosives, knives, machine guns.
Can you find the transcript of the statement of this s@^#head?
What he is talking about? He is making a welcoming present to Pelosi et al.
Condy is out of tune with reality.
Clinton's Islamists strike again!
count me in.
Would the teacher be, by any chance, an "ethnic Albanian?"
I wonder when Dearborn is going to be ready for "independence" from Michigan?
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