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| Two Blasts Rock Macedonia’s Capital |
| 2003-06-23 |
| SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) - Two bombs exploded in the center of the Macedonian capital Sunday, injuring one person and blowing out windows in nearby buildings, police said. Both bombs were planted in garbage containers and went off simultaneously in the late afternoon, police spokeswoman Mirjana Konteska said. No one seriously hurt, not much damaged, rather inept -- are Hek's boys vacationing in Europe? ``Anti-terrorist police units were immediately sent to the scene and are investigating,'' Konteska said. She did not give information on motives or suspects in the case. The Balkan country has been tense since an insurgency in 2001 by militants of the country's restive ethnic Albanian community. They fought government forces for six months until a Western-brokered peace deal in August that year brought a shaky peace. Scattered violence has continued, although the peace accord granted broader rights to ethnic Albanians, nearly a third of Macedonia's 2 million people. A clandestine ethnic Albanian guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for a number of similar attacks in the past. Another locale in which Muslims have been radicalized. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 AFAIK, albanians in Macedonia, though radicalized, are so entirely on political-ethnic grounds - no salafi or other turbaned craziness. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 6/23/03 9:39:11 AM |