NEW ALBANIAN REBEL GROUP SURFACES IN SOUTHERN SERBIA
PRISTINA, Aug 7 ( AFP) A hitherto unknown organization, the
Albanian National Army (ANA), has claimed responsibility for the killing
of two policemen in southern Serbia on Friday.
"A special unit of the Albanian National Army successfully
staged an operation against enemy forces August 3, 2001 in Muhovac," the
group said in a statement received by AFP today in Pristina.
Muhovac was the stomping ground of Muhamet Xhemaili, one of the
most radical members of the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and
Bujanovac, which was disbanded in late May.
The rebel group said Friday's attack was a "warning to the
occupier of the Albanian territory of Anamorava and its international
and Albanian-speaking allies." Anamorava is the Albanian name for the
Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac areas of southern Serbia.
"The war is not over, any more than it is in Macedonia," the
statement said. It vowed a war "even more violent and better organized"
for "the national reunification of Albanians in a unified Albania."
Conflicts in Kosovo, southern Serbia and Macedonia were merely
a "training ground for the fighters of the ANA for an overall Albanian
rebellion," the statement ended. It was signed by the "ANA high
command."