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Rebels, Arms Intercepted on Kosovo Frontier

PRISTINA, Nov 23, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) NATO peacekeepers
stopped a group of apparent rebels and a truck load of arms from crossing from
Kosovo into Serbia-proper Wednesday, as fighting continued between ethnic
Albanian rebels and Serbian police, a spokesman told AFP.

"At 9:00 am (0800 GMT) troops intercepted a group of 10 people attempting to
by-pass a checkpoint and go into (the rebel-held village of) Dobrosin," Flight
Lieutenant Mark Whitty said.

"They were unarmed but carried radios and were wearing black uniforms," he
added.

Later, at 12.30 pm, U.S. troops attached to Kosovo's KFOR force stopped a
truck carrying rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds, anti-personnel mines, a
heavy machine gun and 5,000 rounds of ammunition from heading towards the
village.

"KFOR will not tolerate Kosovo being used as a base for insurgent activity,"
Whitty said.

NATO sources in Kosovo and an AFP reporter in southern Serbia's Presevo
valley reported hearing mortar fire continuing in Dobrosin Wednesday. On
Tuesday, guerrillas ambushed Serbian police nearby, wounding four and leaving
three others missing, presumed dead, according to Serb police.

Dobrosin is in Ground Safety Zone, a five-kilometer (three-mile)
Belgrade-controlled security zone along the border with Kosovo. The zone is out
of bounds for both Serbian troops and NATO peacekeepers and is patrolled by
lightly-armed Serbian police.

An AFP reporter who visited the village earlier in the year found it was in the
hands of the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medveda and Bujanovac (UCPMB), a
rebel group fighting for the creation of an independent "Eastern Kosovo" region.

Presevo is home to a 70,000-strong ethnic Albanian population that forms the
majority of the population.

On Wednesday, the Yugoslav government, in a statement released on state
television, demanded an emergency session of the UN security council, to
condemn "the escalation in terrorist acts by Albanian extremists" which risked
"provoking a new war in the region."

Early Wednesday, a powerful bomb ripped through the home of Yugoslavia's top
representative in Kosovo, which has been administered by the United Nations
since NATO's arrival in the province in June last year, killing a member of his
staff.