STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- While genocide continues apace in Kosovo.... 1)KFOR News Update Pristina, 02 July 2001 By Squadron Leader Roy Brown, KFOR Spokesman Multinational Brigade Centre Weapon Confiscated A pistol and 12 rounds of ammunition were confiscated after a vehicle was stopped at a KFOR checkpoint last night. The weapon and ammunition were found during a routine search of a car that had been stopped at a vehicle checkpoint near Govorce. Three men in the car were detained and handed over to UMMIK Police. A follow-up search was made but no additional items of interest were found. UNMIK-Police are continuing to investigate these men. Multinational Brigade East Patrols increased after suspect arson attack KFOR's Multinational Brigade East has stepped up the frequency of patrols in the vicinity of Cernice / Cernica, following a suspected arson attack yesterday. A house belonging to one of five Kosovo Serb families, that had recently left the village, was apparently set on fire at just before nine o'clock last night. UNMIK-Police and the local fire department responded and quickly extinguished the blaze. UNMIK-Police, who are investigating, are treating the incident as arson. KFOR has increased its presence in order to protect other vacant Kosovo Serb properties in the area. Multinational Brigade South Weapons found in lorry A rifle and a quantity of ammunition were seized from a lorry entering Kosovo at the Morine / Morina border crossing point yesterday afternoon. A rifle, 196 rounds of assorted ammunition and one 20mm rifle grenade were found when the lorry was searched by KFOR Multinational Brigade South soldiers, as part of KFOR's ongoing operations to prevent the smuggling of weapons through Kosovo. The driver was detained and taken to the Military Police Station in Prizren for further questioning. Papers - indicating a connection to ethnic Albanian armed groups - were also found. Multinational Brigade West Men and weapon handed to UNMIK-Police In Dakovica yesterday, soldiers from KFOR's Multinational Brigade Task Force Falco stopped a car with two men in it. During a routine check of the vehicle, they found a pistol with a full ammunition magazine, containing 13 nine millimetre rounds of ammunition, and a radio. The men, weapons and ammunition were handed over to UNMIK-Police. KFOR Multinational Brigade West intelligence staff are examining the radio set. Search Operation In Dakovica yesterday afternoon, KFOR Multinational Brigade West's Task Force Falco carried out a search operation, recovering one AK-47 assault rifle with an ammunition magazine and 30 roundsof ammunition. The weapon and ammunition were delivered to UNMIK-Police for further investigation. No arrests were made. ...NATO 'peacekeepers' protect...Albania. 2)KFOR News The Beachboys out west DURRES: Deployed directly on the beach of Durres in Albania, our boys out west are living in a surfers paradise. But the only place the KFOR soldiers at COMM-Z WEST are allowed to surf, is on the Internet! Alternative: "We are the alternative to Thessaloniki," Italian Captain Umberto Salvador in the Joint Operation Command (JOC) Plepa says. In the JOC an old map from Hoxa's days are still hanging in there. At first sight, any KFOR soldier deployed in Kosovo or the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) would more than envy their colleagues in compound Plepa in Durres. But the beautiful view with palm trees on a beach by a blue sea is just as fake as any picture in a travel catalogue offering holidays; it only tells half the truth. A walk down onto the beach tells you the other half. In between the barbed wire and beside a watchtower, a big sign clearly spells it out for you: "No swimming!" And no wonder the soldiers have to stick to surfing on Internet, the sea out of Durres is even more polluted than the Web. That doesn't however stop the troops in this subordinate command of the KFOR NATO-led international force in Kosovo, from using the beach for everything else except swimming. Being active playing beach volleyball, jogging, or just going for a stroll, the beachboys out west use the seashore for all kinds of activities in their time off in the evenings. The alternative During the daytime there are duties to maintain for the more than 1,200 soldiers assigned under Brig. Gen. Giovani Marizza's command and operating in several cities throughout Albania. The task given to them is to maintain open access of the lines of communication (LOC) throughout Albania and along the Albanian/Kosovo border supporting the mission of KFOR. "That means that we have to make sure that both the harbour and the roads are fully operational and that the roads to Kosovo and FYROM are open," the Captain says, adding: "It is easier to bring everything in through Thessaloniki, but there has to be an alternative, something the situation in FYROM reminds us of every day. We are that alternative." Being on his second mission in Albania, he surely enjoys the challenges in COMMZ West. "I was at the Italian field hospital outside Durres for six and a half months. Then I joined up at the War Academy back home. Now I'm back in Albania., but this time in the JOC," Salvador says, obviously quite happy with the change. Going home: "It is good for us to get experience soldiering abroad and learning more to appreciate what we have back home," WO Leonardo Ribecco says. Together with Corporal Marco Severin and approximately 500 other Volturno soldiers in Albania, 1st Sardinia Grenade Regiment is replacing him these days. Six countries COMMZ (W) has a composition of soldiers from six countries; Italy, Turkey, Greece, United States, Germany and Denmark, with Italy as the lead nation. Also stationed in Durres is a large contingent of Italian Forces who support the COMMZ (W) headquarters and Italian Forces assigned to KFOR. "It's a different way of life over here, quite different from Italy, but I like it," says Corporal Marco Severin serving in the Italian Army's 3. Field artillery Regiment Volturno. He is in Albania for the first time, but his Commander is at the gates of Plepas neighboring camp, with the exotic name Tropical, taking care of security for his second mission. "From a humanitarian aspect it is great to be over here helping out. But it is also good for us to get experience soldiering abroad and learning more to appreciate what we have back home," WO Leonardo Ribecco says. Together with the approximately 500 other Volturno soldiers (28 in Durres and the rest in Ure) 1st Sardinia Grenade Regiment is replacing him these days. KFOR REAR Communications Zone West operates under the immediate direction of KFOR REAR Headquarters in Skopje. Although, organized on the 1st of September 1999 as COMMZ-W, Italian Forces have been deployed from the original phase of the KFOR operation. During Allied Harbor, the "Taurinense" brigade (Task Force North) was under AFOR and in theater as early as April 1999 when it occupied its present location compound near Durres. The unit structure under the command and control consists of the headquarters staff, an Italian Budget and Administration section, an Italian Logistics Command (NSE) to include logistics support assets and field hospital, 3rd Heavy Artillery Regiment with a Greek Infantry Company attached, 26th Air Cavalry Squadron "Giove," 72nd Italian Airforce Wing, a Headquarters Support Battalion and a Carabinieri Company (Military Police) with a Turkish Platoon attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
