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KFOR Seizes Truck With Weapons, Guerrilla Uniforms

PRISTINA, Nov 30, 2000 -- (Reuters) NATO peacekeepers on Wednesday
seized a truck carrying weapons as well as uniforms of an ethnic Albanian
guerrilla
group involved in recent clashes with Serbian police outside the province.

KFOR spokesman Major Peter Cameron said Norwegian peacekeepers
detained three Albanians in the operation in the Drenica valley in western
Kosovo
-- a former stronghold of the Kosovo Liberation Army which fought Serb rule in
1998-99.

The peacekeepers found 20 mortar rounds, 20 anti-personnel mines, 1,000 rifle
rounds, one anti-tank weapon and a number of uniforms of the guerrilla group
calling itself the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac.

"The Norwegian battalion stopped a truck with weapons and UCPMB uniforms,"
Cameron told Reuters, saying the truck was heading east towards the Kosovo
capital of Pristina.

"We run vehicle checkpoints randomly all the time. We want to create uncertainty
in the minds of people conducting illegal activity," he said.

The guerrilla group, operating in a buffer zone inside Serbia proper east of
Kosovo, has been involved in several sporadic clashes with Serbian police over
the last year.

An upsurge in guerrilla activity early last week left four Serbian policemen
dead.
The remote boundary area has been generally calm in recent days, with both sides
apparently observing an indefinite ceasefire, announced by KFOR on Tuesday.

The rebels say they are protecting local Albanians from abuses and intimidation
by Serb police.

Belgrade denounces them as separatists from Kosovo intent on uniting the area
with the ethnic Albanian-dominated province.

KFOR, keeping a wary watch from just across the boundary, has blamed the
guerrillas for the increase in violence and has vowed to do its utmost to cut
off any
supply lines and logistical support from Kosovo.

The peacekeeping force last week detained 10 guerrilla suspects by the boundary
and in a separate operation in the same area seized a truck laden with weapons.