Speaking of Kosovo....
Kosovo officials arrested after huge weapons haul
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2742690 ^ | December 21, 2006
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Posted on 12/21/2006 8:29:38 AM EST by joan
By Fatos Bytyci
Dec 21, 2006 — PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - Two officials of Kosovo's governing coalition have been arrested after police found a minibus packed with heavy weapons and ammunition.
A police source said the haul included a 12.7 mm anti-aircraft gun and more than 100 rocket-propelled grenades.
Local media reports said the find, made late on Wednesday in the Drenica region of central Kosovo, was the largest in Kosovo since the 1998-99 war and the deployment of NATO peacekeepers.
Three men were arrested, including a senior adviser to the Kosovo labor minister and a member of the governing Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), which emerged from the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army.
The find sharpened fears of unrest in the U.N.-run province, where major powers have delayed a decision on the demand of 2 million ethnic Albanians for independence from Serbia.
The Kosovo government issued a statement expressing regret for what it said was an isolated case. The AAK, a junior member of the governing coalition, said it was "surprised" that two of its members were involved.
The breakaway province, run by the United Nations since 1999 and patrolled by 17,000 NATO-led peacekeepers, is braced for possible violence after the major Western powers and Russia let slip a year-end deadline to decide its fate until Serbia holds a general election on January 21.
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Olmert's associates to Abbas: If Qassams continue, Israel will respond
Published: 12.21.06, 17:13
Officials close to Prime Minister Olmert told associates of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Israel's restraint in light of the Qassam rockets will not last forever. According to them, "if the Qassam fire will continue, we will have no choice but to respond."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3343045,00.html