Kosovo: Government officials injured in bomb blast

aki ^ | 1/15/08 | aki

[Flavius]

Pristina, 15 Jan. (AKI) - Five government officials were injured in the south-west Kosovo town of Suva Reka, when a bomb exploded in the official vehicle of the ministry of labor and social welfare, police said on Tuesday.

Police spokesman Veton Elsani said the bomb was planted below the driver’s seat and exploded while the car was moving.

[Cicero]

Hmm. My first reaction was, are the Serbs starting to push back? Then I read the article.

The ministry of labor and social welfare in prime minister Hasim Taci’s government, formed last week, is headed by minority Serb, Nenad Rasic, who was not in the car.

Surprise, surprise. Just more Muslim terrorists bombing the wrong guys by accident. Bad luck for those who were hurt, but I'm sure the Muslim Albanian terrorists don't much care.

[Flavius]

Three of fifteen Muslim men from a tense southern Serbian region are seen in Serbia's special court courtroom after they went on trial Monday, Jan.14, 2008, on terrorism charges. Most had been arrested in raids last year in the Sandzak region bordering Kosovo in which large caches of ammunition and bomb-making material also were discovered. The men were charged with terrorism, illegal possession of weapons, alleged links with unidentified foreign terrorist groups and plans to attack police. Police have accused them of being Islamic radicals and adherents of the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam followed by Osama bin Laden and many al-Qaida members

[joan]

If Serbs were going to push back it would probably be within 20 miles from the border with Kosovo or a few miles from any significant Serbian population. This took place in Prizren which has been ethnically cleansed of Serbs and there is no significant Serb population nearby. In other words it is deep in Albanian-controlled territory. In addition there is rivalry and sniping between the Albanians which goes on, particularly in the political arena and also with authorities trying to curb the illegal activities of Albanians - read this recent post from a UNer's blog about what goes on there:

15 January 2008 - Illegal Woodcutters Rampage...

This one is just too good to pass up so here's the story...a couple days ago a report came in to KPS that seven known Albanian illegal woodcutters tied up and assaulted four Albanian employees of the Forestry Department. The illegal woodcutters allegedly bound and beat the Forestry employees with axes and chairs before fleeing the scene. The victims of the assault sustained various injuries which were treated at a local hospital and the attackers were detained in conjunction with the investigation. How wild is that???

http://www.mtcowgirl.us/kosovolog.html

[Cicero]

It sounds to me like a typical Muslim M.O. A bomb planted below the driver’s seat is pretty certainly an attempted assassination of the owner or user of the car. And the article goes on to say, “The ministry of labor and social welfare in prime minister Hasim Taci’s government, formed last week, is headed by minority Serb, Nenad Rasic, who was not in the car.”

In other words, a token Serb was given a position in the Muslim government, to prove to the Euros that it was “balanced,” and that was too much for some Muslim fanatic to put up with. It was just luck that the Serb minister wasn’t riding in the car when it blew up.

I don’t know what kind of security they had, but normally a government official’s car would be kept pretty secure in a place like Kosovo, which suggests an inside job or a knowledgeable operator.