Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [Why do I have a creeping suspicion that the people caught for these crimes are never the ones working for Western intelligence services....cheers!] Albania seizes missiles bound for Macedonia TIRANA, July 30 (Reuters) - Albanian police said on Monday they had seized a van carrying four surface-to-surface missiles destined for Macedonia, where ethnic Albanian guerrilla guerrillas are fighting. The van arrived in the Albanian port of Durres on Saturday by ferry from neighbouring Italy, Durres Police Chief Arben Ruci told Reuters by telephone. He said the van's driver, a Macedonian Albanian, was arrested. Macedonia, scene of a five-month-old insurgency by guerrillas who say they are fighting for better rights for the large Albanian minority, has accused the Tirana government of allowing the rebels to traffic arms through its territory. Albanian police seized another Macedonia-bound shipment of automatic weapons, bullets and flak jackets in Durres last May. In neighbouring Kosovo, a spokesman for the NATO-led peace force said it had detained an ethnic Albanian male on Sunday after finding a weapons cache in the village of Pozaranje thought to be a supply area for the guerrillas in Macedonia. Peacekeepers found 19 rockets, TNT explosives, 83 anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines, 39 radio pagers, sniper rifles, hand grenades, and related detonation equipment, said spokesman British Squadron Leader Roy Brown. Peacekeepers have in recent weeks made numerous seizures of weapons thought to be bound for guerrillas in Macedonia, detaining several suspected members of the rebel group. The Macedonian government has condemned the guerrillas as separatist infiltrators from ethnic Albanian-dominated Kosovo, still legally part of Yugoslavia but now run as a de facto international protectorate. 07:58 07-30-01 ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
