Who was behind the Pristina attack – the BND or the KLA?
The Bundestag should be officially informed on Thursday about the arrests of three alleged agents of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in Kosovo, Radio Deutsche Welle said on Monday, stressing that German public security experts believe Albanian extremists are in fact behind the relevant bomb attack in Pristina.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, November 24, 2008
All the circumstances involving this incident should be presented at a session of the German parliament's intelligence oversight committee by BND Chief Ernst Uhrlau.
The three alleged BND agents have denied any connection with the explosion in front of the ICO office in Pristina, according to media reports.
Politicians in Berlin also doubt that any German intelligence service members in Kosovo actually took part in the bomb attack on November 14 which resulted in material damages alone, Deutsche Welle said.
"Such things are beyond my imagination. It seems that these are arbitrary accusations, but they must be looked into, even as such," Bundestag's Supervisory Committee President, Social Democratic Party MP Thomas Oppermann said.
"It all smacks strongly of a plot that could be connected with the Kosovo government and its interests, and perhaps also with other (foreign) intelligence services or the local judiciary," Committee member, Green Party MP Hans-Christian Stroebele said.
Meanwhile, the investigative judge of the District Court in Pristina has sentenced the three German citizens to 30 days in detention.
The Albanian-language media in Pristina reported on Sunday that the Germans had been indicted for an act of terrorism.
According to the media, the Prosecution holds that the suspects attacked the ICO building so as to obstruct the deployment of Eulex.
