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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [But conventional wisdom, at least that of the establishment press corps and NATO governments, would have us believe that the insurgengies in Macedonia, Southern Serbia and, earlier, in Kosovo were actuated solely by concerns for the "civil rights" of local inhabitants. As though the Albanian nationals at the heart of much of the armed attacks, and the heroin trafficking that funds them, come from a nation that has no social or ethnic problems of its own. The disenfranchisement and harassment of ethnic Greeks, most notably. ] Ethnic Albanian Guerrillas Spotted in Western Macedonia SKOPJE, Jun 5, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Around 100 armed men wearing the uniform of the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) were spotted in western Macedonia near the border with Albania, police authorities said Monday. The forces have been gathering over the past two months in the two villages of Melnicani and Bulciza waiting for orders to go into action, the private Sitel television channel reported. A spokesman for the Macedonian army Colonel Blagoja Markovski said he was unaware of the development. The rebel NLA army, which has since February led attacks against Macedonian security forces in the north and northwest of the country, warned that it was ready to open new fronts, notably mentioning the Debar region, the scene of Monday's reported sightings. Reports of NLA activity in the Debar region arose in April but were never confirmed. "The terrorist unit was formed two months ago when around 50 people entered Macedonia from Albania" to recruit from the Debar region, Sitel said. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) UN Police Arrest Albanians for Drug Trafficking PRISTINA, Jun 5, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) UN police said Monday they had seized 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds) of heroin and arrested 11 Albanians in an operation in eastern Kosovo. Two of the alleged traffickers are Albanian nationals and the nine others are ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, UN police said in a statement. It said 52 drug trafficking cases have been reported since the beginning of the year in just one Kosovo town, Gnjilane. On May 31, police seized 7.3 kilograms (16 pounds) of hashish and arrested two people who were attempting to cross the border between Albania and Kosovo on a bus. Kosovo, a Serb province with an Albanian majority, has been administered by the United Nations since NATO ended its air strikes against Yugoslavia in June 1999. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
