Posted on 02/05/2003 10:23:57 PM PST by Destro
AP World Politics
Attacks raise tension in Serbia's volatile south
Wed Feb 5, 8:09 AM ET
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro - Attackers threw a hand grenade on a Serb police officer's house in Serbia, adding to tensions already heightened after the slaying of a member of the secret police, the government said Wednesday.
The explosion late Tuesday in the village of Levosoje, about 270 kilometers (150 miles) south of Belgrade, caused material damage but no casualties, the government said in a news release.
The attack came shortly after the fatal shooting of Selver Fazliu, an ethnic Albanian member of Serbia's secret police.
Both attacks occurred in a tense southern Serbian region where ethnic Albanian rebels until last year fought Serb authorities in an attempt to secede and join Kosovo, the province controlled by the United Nations (news - web sites) since the 1999 war between ethnic Albanian separatists and Serb-led government troops.
Serbia's deputy prime minister, Nebojsa Covic, called the slaying of Fazliu a "brutal terrorist attack" and accused former members of officially disbanded ethnic Albanian guerrillas for the shooting.
The government said an investigation into the shooting and the grenade attack were underway.
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but your use of "tacit" suggests that the U.S. and N.A.T.O aren't directly supporting the terrorists in southern Serbia. The truth is, the assistance is "direct" and the War On Terrorism is nothing short of a "fraud".
Oh my gosh, if Fusion were here, he would condemn those awful racist Serbs for continuing to hire Albanians in the most trusted positions of state security. No wonder Albright's freedom fighters have to liberate their fellow Albanians by killing them.
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