Posted on 03/07/2003 8:20:36 AM PST by Destro
AP World - General News
Blast in southern Serbia kills two ethnic Albanians
Fri, Mar 07, 2003
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro - Two people were killed in an explosion Friday in a tense area in Serbia near the boundary with Kosovo, a ranking police official said.
The official, who requested anonymity, said the blast occurred while the two men, apparently ethnic Albanians, were planting a mine on a key road leading to Kosovo. The route is frequently used by Serbian security troops.
There was no immediate word from ethnic Albanian officials in the volatile region in southern Serbian which saw an ethnic Albanian insurgency from 2000-2001.
Violent incidents in the area have increased in the past several weeks following the killing of an ethnic Albanian who worked for Serbia's security service and a police raid on two ethnic Albanian strongholds.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians have held several protests demanding the release of their ethnic kin arrested in the police raid last month.
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NATO troops out, Serb troops in, Muslim terrorists dead.
"Ok Hashim...."
This has been a "Goofy Gheg" production, now back to your regularly scheduled program.
Terrorists preparing to plant mines in roads
Terrorists are preparing to plant new mines and explosive in certain roads in the south of Serbia. This can be concluded from the latest operative information that the police in the town of Vranje have. No doubt these information are more than reliable. The conflict on last Friday near administrative border when two Albanians were killed in fight with the police confirms the operative information.
Mayor-general Goran Radosavljevic says that the two killed Albanians tried to plant explosive device containing at least 15 kilos of tortilla at the place where police regularly check passengers, cars and goods. Both Albanians were armed and they ignored 'stop' sign.
At the same time extremists are making increasingly stronger pressure on members of multi-ethnic police. Albanian National Army /ANA/ on its site calls all Albanians 'serving in Serbia's multi-ethnic police to mobilization and take off the uniforms as soon as possible'.
'If not we shall be force to act mercilessly against those wearing uniforms and Orthodox symbols. In a battle we are not going to have the time to identify them and check whether they are Albanian speakers or Orthodox', ANA concludes.
Apart from these verbal threats and pressures on members of multi-ethnic police and their families, the police registered last year three bombing attacks on the houses of multi-ethnic policemen.
On February 4 this year, terrorists threw a bomb in a yard of policeman Branislav Milosavljevic. The same day they killed BIA member Selver Fazliju. Twenty days later a policeman Milan Vujovic was killed and his two colleagues injured when their vehicle hit an anti-tank mine.
So,there you go!Albanian terrorists send their women to Vranje hospital to deliver their babies,and then,plant mines to kill Serbs!
BTW ,UNMIK and OECD were on the scene and stated that "Serbian Gendarmes had acted very professionaly".
BTW,"tortillas" in the article are not my fault!It`s TNT,stupid translator!
How do you do that?
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