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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020723/ap_wo_en_po/yugoslavia_ammo_cache_2 Serbian police discover ammunition in tense border area Tue Jul 23,11:52 AM ET By DRAGAN ILIC, Associated Press Writer -The cache consisted of more than 100 crates of 60 and 82 millimeter caliber mortar bombs and more than 10,000 of 0.50 caliber rounds for anti-aircraft machine guns. -Last year, ethnic Albanian militants in the area fought in a failed attempt to join the region with Kosovo, administered by the United Nations and NATO.... DOBROSIN, Yugoslavia - Serbian police Tuesday arrested an ethnic Albanian after uncovering the largest ammunition cache to date in a tense border area next to the southern Serbian province of Kosovo. The ammunition was discovered in a built-in basement partition in the family home of Memet Azemi, an ethnic Albanian resident of the Dobrosin village, 280 kilometers (175 miles) southeast of Belgrade. Azemi, 60, denied any knowledge of the Chinese and Serbian-made ammunition, which filled two army trucks before being towed away. The discovery came five days ahead of local elections to be held in the area straddling the boundary line separating NATO-run Kosovo from Serbia proper, Yugoslavia's larger republic. The ballot is seen as a crucial test of Belgrade government efforts to preserve peace in the region after last year's insurgency there. The cache consisted of more than 100 crates of 60 and 82 millimeter caliber mortar bombs and more than 10,000 of 0.50 caliber rounds for anti-aircraft machine guns. Western monitors observed as police piled the ammunition into two military trucks. After Tuesday's discovery, Nebojsa Covic, a Belgrade official in charge of the border region, said police would upgrade security measures to ensure a peaceful poll Sunday. The election will determine the makeup of local governments in three districts with a predominantly ethnic Albanian community. Last year, ethnic Albanian militants in the area fought in a failed attempt to join the region with Kosovo, administered by the United Nations and NATO since 1999, following the alliance's air war to halt former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on the province's ethnic Albanians. After Milosevic lost power in Belgrade in 2000, NATO negotiated a peaceful settlement to the insurgency in southern Serbia. The Sunday vote � held two years ahead of schedule � is part of a Western-backed peace plan expected to create multiethnic local governments. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
