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http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/di/Qmacedonia-vote-minister.ResK_CSH.html Assassination bid on Macedonia minister SKOPJE, Sept 17 (AFP) - The interior minister in the outgoing Macedonian government escaped an assassination attempt by a paramilitary ethnic Albanian group, a police spokesman said Tuesday. Ljube Boskoski was the target when militants from the ethnic Albanian National Army (AKSH) opened fire on a vehicle on Saturday, said the spokesman, Voislav Zafirovski. The car was in the line of vehicles accompanying the minister back to Skopje after his father's funeral in the western Tetovo region's village of Celopek. "Fortunately, the minister was not in the car" and nobody was hurt in the incident, Zafirovski told reporters here. The AKSH had previously planned to carry out the attack on the minister during the funeral but some of attackers clashed with a police patrol in the village itself earlier, Zafirovski said, adding that police killed one attacker, wounded two and arrested another two. He said word of the attempted hit had been kept quiet in order not to "complicate" elections which were held on Sunday. A top ethnic Albanian rebel leader, Ali Ahmeti, has asked for a cabinet role after preliminary results showed his fledgling party had scored well in the polls. It was the country's first election since a bloody uprising by ethnic Albanians last year. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.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 ==^================================================================
