Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Unknown Albanian Group Claims Killing of Two Serbian Policemen PRISTINA, Aug 7, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) A hitherto unknown organization, the Albanian National Army (ANA), has claimed responsibility for the recent killing of two police officers in southern Serbia, vowing to launch a war for a "unified Albania." "A special unit of the Albanian National Army successfully staged an operation against enemy forces August 3, 2001 in Muhovac, killing two Serbian police officers and injuring two others, one of whom later died," the group said in a statement received by AFP Monday in Kosovo's main town of Pristina. The ANA said it suffered no losses in the incident. Serbian police said two officers were killed and two injured on Friday in Muhovac, a village in southern Serbia near the border with the UN-administered and predominantly ethnic Albanian province of Kosovo. Muhovac was the fiefdom of Muhamet Xhemaili, one of the most radical leaders of the the ethnic Albanian Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (LAPMB), which took its name from three mainly Albanian towns in southern Serbia. The LAPMB was disbanded in late May following more than a year of clashes with Serb forces. The ANA said Friday's attack was a "warning to the occupier of the Albanian territory of Anamorava and its international and Albanian-speaking allies." Anamorava is the Albanian name for Presevo, Medvedja et Bujanovac. "The war is not over (in southern Serbia), any more than it is in Macedonia," the ANA statement said. It vowed a war "even more violent and better organized" for "the national reunification of Albanians in a unified Albania." The ANA said the conflicts in Kosovo, in southern Serbia in Macedonia were only "training grounds for the fighters of the ANA for an overall Albanian rebellion," said the statement, which was dated August 5 and signed by the "ANA high command." Serbian authorities Monday appealed to the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo and the UN Mission in Kosovo, which administers the province, to help fight ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Bujanovac. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------- 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 ==^================================================================
