Islamic militants plan to enter Kosovo

Islamic militants plan to enter Kosovo - Serbian analyst
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - November 16, 2004, Tuesday

Text of report by N.P: "Kresovic: Terrorists from Chechnya entering Kosovo via Rozaje" by Montenegrin newspaper Dan on 15 November

A group of about 20 terrorists, Islamists, who spent more than six months in Chechnya, is preparing to enter Kosovo and Metohija from northern Albania. The group has already reached the former border line. At the same time, an Islamist, Wahhabi, fanatical group is planning to leave Bosnia-Hercegovina within the next few days and pass through Rozaje town in northern Montenegro in order to launch terrorist actions in Kosovo together with the Islamist group from Albania, analyst Tomislav Kresovic, expert on security and terrorism issues, has told Dan, quoting reliable reports by international organizations that, according to his words, "correspond to our, Serbian, reports".

He says that the two Islamic terrorist groups plan to link with the Albanian National Army (ANA), which is now training on Sar-planina mountain in Macedonia and Bajgora in Kosovo-Metohija.

"According to this plan, terrorist actions should be launched in towns, primarily in Pristina, Urosevac and the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica. In Pristina they would target American, British and Kfor installations and diplomatic structures, and in the northern part of Mitrovica they would conduct Markale-style referring to a market place bombing in Sarajevo terrorist actions. There are Wahhabi structures in the interior of Kosovo and Metohija and they are waiting to initiate joint actions," Kresovic says.

He points out that Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova is also one of the targets. They plan to assassinate him and blame the international forces and the Serbian secret police. A combination of terrorist actions and political assassination is about to sweep through Kosovo and the objective is to implement all scenarios for definition of the Kosovo status within the next two months as published . That is why trenches and breastworks are being constructed in many places, including areas surrounding Leposavic and Zvecane. Kresovic says that this is Albanian National Army's way of constantly pressurizing international forces in order to prove how numerous and powerful it is. He points out that now there are more than 15,000 members of the ANA and that it is being fully supported by the Kosovo Protection Corps.

SOURCE: Dan, Podgorica, in Serbian 15 Nov 04, p8

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