Thursday, November 23 11:27 PM SGT

Senior Rugova aide shot dead in Kosovo

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Nov 23 (AFP) -

A senior political advisor to moderate Kosovo leader Ibrahim Rugova, Xhemajl
Mustafa, was shot and killed Thursday in Pristina, UN police spokesman
Charley Johnson said.

"Initial information is that he was killed in front of his home," Johnson
said.

Sources from Kosovo's NATO-led peacekeeping force told AFP that Mustafa died
after being shot in front of an apartment block in the Dardania district of
the provincial capital.