http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3204695.stm
BBC News
October 22, 2003
Slovenia arrests Kosovo rebel leader
-The 3,000-strong KPC which Mr Ceku now leads is closely supervised by both
Unmik and the Nato-led peacekeeping force, K-for.
Police in Slovenia have detained the former commander of Albanian rebels in
Kosovo on the basis of a Serbian arrest warrant.
Agim Ceku commanded the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) when it was fighting
for independence from Serbia and now leads a civil emergency force there,
the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC).
He was detained at Ljubljana airport while travelling between Kosovo and
Croatia.
A spokeswoman for the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague told
the BBC that Mr Ceku had not been indicted by the court.
However, the Slovene authorities said he was being held on the basis of a
Serbian arrest warrant delivered via Interpol.
Details of the charges contained in the warrant have not been released.
Another former rebel leader in Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, who is now a
politician, was briefly detained in Hungary nearly four months ago on the
basis of another warrant issued by Serbia.
The KLA has been blamed for war crimes by the Serbian authorities.
'Old warrant'
Mr Ceku told news agencies by telephone that he was being kept in a small
room and guarded by two police officers.
"I was told I am wanted by the Serb government, which has issued an arrest
warrant," he told The Associated Press.
"They told me they can't release me without consulting the [Slovene]
authorities."
A source at the UN mission in Kosovo (Unmik), which has been governing the
mainly Albanian province since Serbia withdrew in 1999 after a Nato bombing
campaign, said it seemed that Mr Ceku had been arrested on the basis of an
"old" warrant.
"Unmik is working to resolve this problem with the Slovenian authorities,"
the source told Reuters news agency.
The 3,000-strong KPC which Mr Ceku now leads is closely supervised by both
Unmik and the Nato-led peacekeeping force, K-for.
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