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Pristina names chief spy

Kosovo's president has named an ethnic Albanian police colonel as the first head of the country's intelligence service.

(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, February 06, 2009

Bashkim Smakaj, 32, will lead the Kosovo Intelligence Agency.

Unlike the recently selected head of Kosovo's new security force, who came from the ranks of former rebel fighters, Smakaj belongs to the new generation of Kosovo officers serving in the country's multiethnic Rule of Law agency.