Posted on 01/05/2003 8:46:55 PM PST by vooch
Former rebel commander and two others killed in Kosovo shooting
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) Gunmen killed three people, including a well-known former rebel commander, in a drive-by shooting Saturday in the western part of Kosovo.
The three were slain in the town of Pec, 50 miles west of provincial capital, Pristina, said Christian Lindmeier, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in Kosovo.
Lindmeier said one of those killed was Tahir Zemaj, a former ethnic Albanian rebel leader. The other two were identified by local media as Zemaj's 20-year-old son, Enis, and a relative, Hasan Zemaj.
Tahir Zemaj headed a rebel faction [poster's note: is this a reference to the anti-KLA group aka, FARC ? ] fighting Serb forces in western Kosovo during the province's 1998-99 war. That faction was allied with the party of Ibrahim Rugova, now Kosovo's president.
Hostilities between Zemaj and some members of the now-disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army continued through the postwar years a legacy of their tense relationship during the conflict.
Zemaj had escaped an earlier attempt on his life in August, when attackers launched a rocket at a restaurant where he was sitting. He escaped with light injuries.
Zemaj, who did not have a political position in the province, testified recently against five former senior KLA rebels who were convicted of unlawfully detaining four men who are presumed dead. The captives belonged to the brigade that Zemaj commanded.
Kosovo, a province of the Serbian republic Yugoslavia, has been administered by the United Nations and NATO since 1999, following an alliance air war.
Hostilities persist between the ethnic Albanians and the Serb minority, but rivalries among different ethnic Albanian factions have also resulted in violence.
U.N. police in Pec declined to comment on a motive.
Pray for W and the Troops
Yes, KLA is connected to Al Qaida AND U.S. intelligence community at the same time. That is the biggest problem. Al Qaida operatives got an easy way to learn U.S. know-how.
CIA AND KLA The Sunday times, July 29 2001
UN sources believe the suspect, Florim Ejupi, who was wearing a bright orange prison uniform when he vanished and was said to have cut his way through four sets of barbed wire fences with a simple tool, had been working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). His trial would have been a serious embarrassment, they claim.
Check for MPRI connection to KLA in Kosovo and FYR Macedonia.
yup, quite a number of Al-Queeda captured in Afgahnistan fought with Bosnian & KLA jihadists.....and during the time these murders were fighting in Bosnia and Kosovo, Clinton was sending them b illions
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