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| Gunmen Shoot Dead UN Policeman in Kosovo |
| 2003-08-04 |
| EFL Gunmen have killed an Indian officer in the first deadly attack on Kosovo’s U.N. police force since the 1999 war, U.N. officials said Monday. The ambush late Sunday on a U.N. police vehicle in northern Kosovo is likely to heighten security concerns after several violent incidents across the U.N.-governed province in recent weeks, although officials cautioned against linking them. "Nope, no linkage. We’re looking for several different lone white guys." "This was a direct attack on international forces of law and order," said the acting head of the United Nations in Kosovo, U.S. diplomat Charles Brayshaw. "How dare they attack the U.N.! Don’t they know we are a multilateral culturally-diverse force?" A U.N. spokesman said the police vehicle was apparently forced to slow down because of rocks lying on the road to the town of Leposavic. "That’s when the shooting started," he said. Someone read his Ambush 101 textbook. The attack took place in an ethnically mixed region, populated mainly by Serbs but also with some ethnic Albanian villages, U.N. officials said. They did not yet know who was responsible nor the motive. Police spokesman Barry Fletcher identified the victim as 43-year-old Satish Menon from India and said he was "the first U.N. police officer killed in the line of duty" in Kosovo. There are currently some 4,450 U.N. police from more than 50 countries in Kosovo, with India one of the largest contributors. Indian, huh? Wonder if there are any Pak "volunteers" around assisting the Albanians, or if just any U.N. cop would have been a target? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 The Blue helmets make good targets. |
| Posted by: SPQR 2755 2003-8-4 1:53:43 PM |
| #1 "Nope, no linkage. We’re looking for several different lone white guys." "Likely Presbyterians or Baptists. They're a rough lot. Right up there with Seventh Day Adventists." |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-8-4 1:05:22 PM |