ALBANIAN ARRESTED BY KFOR, ACCUSED OF ATTACKING SERBIAN HOUSES AND KFOR TROOPS

Representatives of the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija visited today Klokot village near Vitina, in which 5 Serb houses were destroyed in a terrorist attack on Wednesday morning.

The part of the village in which the destroyed houses were located has been evacuated today and the Serb residents moved to a more safer part of the village. SNC representatives were told by KFOR authorities that 4 Serb houses were completely destroyed and one more has been seriously damaged.

In this attack two members of U.S. KFOR were injured, one of them seriously, and were transported to the military hospital at Camp Bondsteel. The first explosion rocked the village around 01.15 CET. Other explosions followed at unequal intervals. The last, explosion was heard around 03.30. The attacked houses were empty except the one in which an old Serb, Djordje Kostic slept. He woke up after the first explosion and opened the door of his house. In front of the door he could see a parcel and two bottles of juice. Kostic thought that it was a present from his relatives and brought the parcel in his home.

Apparently he noticed that it was rather heavy (around 8 kg). When he began opening the parcel he could see metal covering, a kind of a clock and cords. He took the parcel to his porch and called two KFOR soldiers who had already come to this location after the first explosion. They immediately saw that it was an explosive device and pulled Kostic away from his house. After 1 minute an explosion occurred destroying Kostic's home.

KFOR immediately searched the village with suspicion that more explosive devices were placed in other Serb houses. Villagers claim that several days before graffiti appeared on Serb homes, especially empty ones, saying: THIS IS ALBANIAN - (OVO JE ALBANSKO)

Local KFOR confirmed to the SNC representatives that one Albanian has already been arrested. He was spotted by the air surveillance system going towards the neighboring village of Trpeze at 03.00 in the morning. This village is now completely Albanian and all Serbs were expelled after the war and their graveyards were desecrated.

According to the personal recognition of an unnamed US KFOR representative SNC officials were told that these explosive devices were very sophisticated and could not easily be found or made. It is also amazing that such a large quantity of explosive could be brought to this location unnoticed. This all proves that behind the attack is a very sophisticated terrorist network which undoubtedly exists in Kosovo today.

This attack of Albanian terrorists is not only attack on Kosovo Serb civilian population but also an immediate attack on KFOR and especially U.S. interests in the region. Further investigation is ongoing.

Official KFOR report on this incident is available at: http://www.nato.int/kfor/press/pr/pr/2002/07/40-07.htm

What I don't get is how the Albanians would have been able to set up the bombs in those houses without notice. Already, as described in this article, there was threatening graffiti on the houses - "Villagers claim that several days before graffiti appeared on Serb homes, especially empty ones, saying: THIS IS ALBANIAN - (OVO JE ALBANSKO)". And then from another article we find that Klokot is divided by a "main road connecting the three main U.S. base camps". How could the soldiers not have noticed, in a place like this, and especially if they were regularly patrolling the area, as they seemed to be on the night of the explosions? Unless it was actually units within the U.S. military who planted those sophisticated bombs themselves or allowed the Albanians to do it, and then had soldiers patrolling nearby to watch it. Maybe some soldiers were in on it and others not, but something could have been planned. It is no secret that U.S. policy has continually promoted ethnic and cultural cleansing of Serbs from their homes and land. Now they blame an Albanian - but could it be just a distraction from the truth. Eventually, he'll probably be let go. Could he be a scapegoat? Even if it was totally Albanians who did this, who trained them in making very sophisticated bombs? Why are they never caught with explosives before all these incidents of Serbian property, churches, businesses, etc. being blown to smithereens? In the past 3 years, literally tons and tons of explosives have been transported and placed by Albanians all over Kosovo - they couldn't do it if they weren't allowed.

U.N. to investigate Kosovo village explosions that knocked 2 U.S. soldiers unconscious:

The two soldiers, members of the 3rd Platoon, Company B, from the Bamberg, Germany-based 54th Engineer Battalion, were on patrol in Klokot, a Serbian village that straddles the main road connecting the three main U.S. base camps. They were among a handful of patrols moving in the direction of the nearby village of Ballance to investigate an earlier explosion.

Huggins and Burge were walking near a group of five vacant homes near a cornfield. Others soldiers had stopped their Humvees on a dirt road close by, next to an elderly man’s home when explosions started tearing up homes around them, Calpena said.

PLEASE NOTE:

"Local KFOR confirmed to the SNC representatives that one Albanian has already been arrested. He was spotted by the air surveillance system going towards the neighboring village of Trpeze at 03.00 in the morning. This village is now completely Albanian and all Serbs were expelled after the war and their graveyards were desecrated".

Yes, they saw him...now will they punish their precious pet???

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