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Grenade Attack against Moderate Kosovo Candidate

PRISTINA, Oct 24, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) A candidate in Kosovo's
municipal elections was targeted by a grenade in the latest in a series of
attacks
against members of Ibrahim Rugova's moderate LDK party, UN police
spokesman Derek Chappell said Monday.

Fahri Morina, candidate for the Democratic League of Kosovo in the western
Kosovo municipality of Djakovica, was not injured in the attack early Sunday
which damaged his house, Chappell said.

The chairman of the LDK in Djakovica, Aqif Shehu, told AFP that three more
candidates had been targeted but that grenades thrown at their homes had not
exploded.

In a separate incident Sunday, an LDK candidate in Glogovac, central Kosovo,
received a letter threatening his life, Chappell said. LDK officials say such
letters
are commonplace. Most warn recipients that if they don't quit politics they will
be
liquidated.

Since June 15 two senior LDK officials have been murdered, two more shot and
wounded and a reporter working for a newspaper sympathetic to the party has
been assassinated.

The LDK's main rivals in Saturday's municipal election, Kosovo's first since the
end of the province's armed rebellion against Yugoslav rule, are the Democratic
Party of Kosovo (PDK) of former guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci.

LDK officials who wished to remain anonymous have told AFP that the violence is
orchestrated by people close to Thaci, and PDK supporters have been sanctioned
by Kosovo's international election monitors for making violent pronouncements.
But the UN mission has said no link has been proven between the party and the
killings.