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Seven Mujahideens Die in Unsuccessful Attack on Police
Monday, March 4, 2002
(19:51)
Pravda

High government officials stated that they do not suppose that this attack is an innuendo into the announced Albanian terrorist "spring offensive," but nevertheless remain prepared to defend the country.

The attack on the police patrol was apparently part of a wider plan. Macedonian security forces on high alert, securing American, British, and German embassies, preventing further Mujahideen attacks against NATO targets.

According to the sources from Ministry of Interior, Macedonian police arrested four Mujahideen in Skopje 12 days ago. The police extracted information that they were part of a larger Islamic terrorist network, planning to attack Macedonian and NATO facilities in the country.

As a reaction, special forces of Macedonian police deployed around the embassies of the United States of America, Great Britain and Germany, steeping up the security measures, and intensified patrolling in the critical areas, as pinpointed by the arrested terrorists.

Saturday, at about 4:00 a.m., an armed group of seven men attacked a police patrol in the area of Rashtanski Lozja district [Rashtan Vineyard], near Ljuboten north of Skopje. Ministry of Interior informed that the Macedonian Security Forces appropriately responded to the attack.

The official report announces that all seven, still unidentified assailants died in the shooting. Macedonian security forces suffered no casualties.

An executive judge, first public prosecutor and an expert team of the Ministry of Interior carried investigation at the scene of the crime, and determined that the group was armed with four machine guns, eight China-made hand grenades, eight hand-held rocket launchers and a radio station. The bodies of the terrorists will undergo further investigation in the Institute for Forensic Medicine.
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