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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (16702)	6/22/2000 7:08:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Yugoslavia Says U.S., KFOR Back Terrorism BELGRADE (Reuters) - Yugoslavia accused the United States and international peacekeepers in Kosovo Thursday of trying to spread ``ethnic Albanian terrorism'' to Serbia and called for extra police measures to prevent it. A series of bomb blasts had rocked a tense part of southern Serbia, which has a large ethnic Albanian population and borders Kosovo, Wednesday, drawing accusations from Yugoslav authorities against ``foreign-backed Albanian terrorists.'' Bombs damaged the town hall in Bujanovac and the municipal courthouse in Presevo and Serbian police said that another bomb ''of Albanian origin'' was deactivated outside the court later. ``What happened in Bujanovac and Presevo shows the terrorists are not giving up and that (police) measures must be expanded,'' Nikola Sainovic, a top official of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party (SPS), told reporters. Yugoslav authorities claim that Albanian separatists are being trained and armed by the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force, which took over control of Kosovo last June after 11 weeks of NATO air strikes forced Serb forces out of the province. KFOR formally disbanded the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) last year and has since found and confiscated several large weapons stores. It has also said it would not tolerate any spread of violence in the region. ``Police are doing everything...to control the buffer zone (on the provincial boundary with Kosovo) and with good results in view of the volume of training and centers in Kosovska Kamenica region and vast logistical support of U.S. forces and KFOR to the KLA,'' Sainovic said.