From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FYROM: Bomb Blasts Second Largest City HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Ananova November 18, 2001 Bomb rocks Macedonian city A powerful bomb has exploded in the Macedonian city of Tetovo. A shadowy ethnic Albanian militant group claimed responsibility for the blast. Macedonian police said an explosive device was detonated near the city's market but no one was injured. Alban Berisha, a spokesman for a new militant group calling itself the Albanian National Army, said his organisation claimed responsibility. He said: "This is a response to (interior minister Ljube) Boskovski's claims that we are nonexistent and a phantom organisation." He also announced "more similar actions during next week". The explosion came a day after Macedonian police and ethnic Albanian rebels traded gunfire near the village of Preljubiste, near the spot where three policemen were killed earlier in the week. Another, much larger militant group - the National Liberation Army - began fighting in February for greater rights for Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority. It agreed to end its struggle in August when a peace deal expanding their rights was reached. Defence Ministry spokesman Marjan Gjurovski called the Albanian National Army a danger to national security. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
