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...United Nations Environment Program issued its final report on the impact of depleted uranium used during the 1999 Kosovo conflict. unep said an analysis of 11 sites across the province showed that contamination levels were low, but the threat of radiation in the water supply remained. The study rated the danger to passers-by as "insignificant," but did not include cases in which people, including soldiers, had direct contact with D.U. particles...
...Government forces captured some men who were not in fatigues but were armed near Tetovo today. But reports of some major sweep, or of rebels dropping their weapons and fleeing over the Kosovo border, are nonsense. Police officials say the rebels may have moved their command center higher up into the hills, but they're clearly still out there...
...Well, they're saying they went through the political system for 10 years, but it's not working. There are probably several different objectives at work here. The commanders of the guerrilla force may well come from Kosovo, but most of the foot soldiers are local. The circumstances of Albanians in Macedonia were ripe for exploitation. It's hard to find an Albanian who won't identify with the cause of the guerrillas, even if they criticize its methods. Even if it's not entirely indigenous, there's clearly still a major problem in Macedonia without which this wouldn...
...some of the political parties that have represented them in Skopje, however, have lately been calling for the creation of a separate Albanian political entity within a Macedonian federation - an option the government rejects as the first step towards annexing part of Macedonia into a "Greater Albania" along with Kosovo...
...ordinary Albanians in Macedonia to extend their insurgency beyond Tetovo and its surrounds, civil war will have become a reality. And that would inevitably force NATO, against all its instincts and inclinations, to escalate its own involvement. The reason is not only because of the insurgency's roots in Kosovo - the policing of which, is, after all, NATO's responsibility - but also because Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and the Kosovar Albanians, among others, all maintain an active interest in the fate of the fragile Macedonian state. A full-scale war over Macedonia's borders is very unlikely to be confined...