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Pristina (Blic) - UNMIK Police have launched investigation over possible activity of the radical Islamists in the vicinity of Urosevac. In a search carried out on August 7, policemen found material that is brought in connection with Al Kaeda, the international police in Kosovo and Metohija announced yesterday. 'During search of a house owned by a Kosovo Albanian in the village of Talinovac near Urosevac, certain quantity of material indicating relation with Al Kaeda was found', one official of UNMIK Police said on condition of anonymity. The village of Talinovac is only several kilometers away from the largest military base...

08/12/06: Leaked UN Police Document Reveals Al Qaeda Arrest in Kosovo (Balkanalysis.com Security & Intelligence Brief 11) A leaked police document created by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) police force states that a recent house search turned up al Qaeda-related materials. The internationally-governed province has become a safehaven for Islamic extremists, security experts say, even though the majority of its Albanian Muslims are pro-Western and irreligious. The UN police report, marked Case Ref. # 54401, states that in Talinovc village, Ferizaj region, a search was conducted at 14:00 hours on August 7. Conducted at the house of a...

"Saudi Arabia view the conflicts in Kosovo as that of Islam against Christianity" At the April's international police conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria reiterated that Islamic terrorism is creeping up in the Balkans. Speaking at a regional police anti-crime conference, Bulgarian General Boiko Borisov urged for "joint efforts to fight the global terrorism network" calling on the participants from the likes of Germany, Albania and Turkey to join efforts in limiting militants' access to financing and to enhance security of transport and border control. Earlier in March, the Bulgarian spy chief Kircho Kirov issued a more specific warning on presence...

Al Qaeda in Kosovo By M. Bozinovich "It's not true there were mujahideen in Kosovo. That is a figment of your imagination." Sabit Kadriu, Albanian ‘human rights’ activist in Kosovo while testifying against Milosevic at the Hague Reported al-Qaeda cells in Kosovo are indicated in red, resembling a satellite structure. At the April's international police conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria reiterated that Islamic terrorism is creeping up in the Balkans. Speaking at a regional police anti-crime conference, Bulgarian General Boiko Borisov urged for "joint efforts to fight the global terrorism network" calling on the participants from the likes of Germany,...

A recent interview with European terror expert Claude Moniquet – which states that parts of Macedonia are currently being used by Al Qaeda-linked terrorist “sleeper” cells – is remarkable, in that it is one of the only such admissions to have ever been made by a spokesman for the “international community” in Macedonia’s modern history. It is certainly the most sensational. Moniquet’s organization, the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center in Brussels, was set up at about the same time NATO Spokesman Mark Laity was mocking the Macedonians, saying “…I am slightly concerned because a Mujahedin has just entered the...

Reality Macedonia - Al Qaeda Connections with Kosovo UCK (KLA) Moderate Albanian Leader Ibrahim Rugova warns of UCK and Al Qaeda Connections Ibrahim Rugova's Information Service Warns Of The Connections Of UCK And Al Qaeda Words by translator: Inside my head there lives a dream Inside my voice there lives a soul... The latest press release of Rugova's Democratic Alliance of Kosovo states that "Ibrahim Rugova on several occasions declared that Mohamed Hasan Mahmud, the leader of the Bosnian part of the Al Quaeda chain has been staying in Kosovo. According to Rugova, Mohamed Hasan Mahmud has been operating his ...

from the September 26, 2003 edition Gun culture stymies the UN in Kosovo By Arie Farnam | Special to The Christian Science Monitor CERNICA, KOSOVO – The victim was a schoolteacher, killed by a grenade as he sat in a grocery store in the village of Cernica in eastern Kosovo. "He was drawing up lesson plans for the beginning of the school year," says Radusha Brankica a fellow teacher. Crying, she then pleads, "I can't take any more of this violence. With grenades and guns everywhere, how can we stop the killing?" The blast this month was part of a...