Word: aracinovo
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...well be unstoppable - particularly if those spill across the river into the ethnic-Albanian side of the city. The protests at parliament were a venting of frustration at the government and at NATO. Although all NATO did was ferry the rebel fighters away from the town of Aracinovo, from which they could strike at Skopje, further up into the hills, that was perceived by the Macedonian Slavs as the Western alliance siding with the insurgents...
...guerrilla attack on the small red-roofed town of Aracinovo on the outskirts of the capital earlier this month stirred panic in Skopje, emptying the streets and causing NATO to rethink its approach to the conflict. But every pundit and newspaper hawker in Skopje had for months predicted a rebel attempt on Aracinovo. "How much would it have taken to secure the town with a few detachments of police troops, backed up by forces at the nearby airport," asks a local analyst. Government ineptitude has spawned conspiracy theories, including the suggestion that Prime Minister Georgievski actually wanted to lose Aracinovo...
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