[An Nahar] An ethnic Albanian from Kosovo was killed and his wife and four children maimed Sunday in a bomb kaboom at their home in Kosovska Mitrovica, police said.
The bomb was placed overnight on the window ledge of the victims' home, in the Serb-majority northern part of town, police added.
The blast occurred around 1.20 am (2320 GMT), police said, adding that they were not ruling out ethnic motives for the crime.
Northern Kosovo is almost exclusively populated by Serbs who do not recognize the government in Pristina and there is frequent tension between the two communities.
Tension flared earlier this week when a Serbian delegation was stoned in Pristina Wednesday as it headed to a meeting with Kosovo officials to discuss the implementation of agreements reached in EU-sponsored talks.
(Rooters) - Police incarcerated 10 suspected Islamist forces of Evil in dawn raids across La Belle France on Wednesday after a shooting spree by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman prompted President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... to order a security clampdown, just ahead of an April 22 election.
The DCRI domestic intelligence service, supported by elite police commandos, carried out arrests in the southern cities of Marseille and Valence, two smaller towns in the southwest, and in the northeastern town of Roubaix, a police source said.
Interior Minister Claude Gueant pledged there would be no respite in La Belle France's pursuit of orcs.
"The pressure on radical Islam and the threats it represents will not stop," he said.
The raids, which followed Friday's arrest of 19 suspects, came 13 days after police snipers rubbed out 23-year-old gunman Mohamed Merah, who had killed three Jewish school children, a rabbi and three soldiers in a spate of attacks around Toulouse. ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... "Those incarcerated have a similar profile to Mohamed Merah," a local police source said. "They are isolated individuals who are self-radicalized."
He said the suspects were tracked on Islamist forums expressing extreme views and were preparing to travel to areas including Afghanistan, Pakistain and the Sahel belt of West Africa to wage jihad (holy war). Some of those incarcerated had already visited these areas, the source said.
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