[Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 8:53 AM Subject: Macedonia: Fighting Intensifies Near Capital [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If they don't stop the offensive I'm going to mortar bomb Skopje." Friday June 22, 3:01 PM Macedonian army attacks Albanian rebels in suburb of capital SKOPJE, June 22 (AFP) - Macedonian army helicopters launched a dawn assault Friday on ethnic Albanian rebels in a town on the outskirts of the capital Skopje, army spokesman Colonel Blagoja Markovski said. A rebel commander in the town of Aracinovo said three civilians had been killed in the assault and he threatened to bomb Skopje in retaliation. Markovski said the assault was launched at 4:00 am (0200 GMT) using Ukrainian-made Mi-24 helicopter gunships in what he called "an action to destroy the terrorists in Aracinovo." The attack was still underway at 8:15 am, he said. Commander Hoxha, the leader of the rebels in the town, said that "three civilians had been killed and 18 injured" in the attack. "If they don't stop the offensive I'm going to mortar bomb Skopje," whose centre in less that 10 kilometres (six miles) from the Aracinovo, Hoxha told AFP by telephone. He said army forces were advancing on his men's positions on the edge of the town. The attack on the town -- held since the June 8 by the self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA) -- ended a truce declared by the army almost two weeks ago. The army and rebels said before government peace talks started two weeks ago they would hold fire to give the political dialogue a chance. But the talks broke down on Wednesday amid bitter recriminations between President Boris Trajkovski and ethnic Albanian leader Arben Xhaferi. NATO has said it will send in troops to help disarm the rebels but only if a political deal is reached first and both sides agree on a ceasefire. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
