Four Albanians arrested on suspicion of terror ties
Four Kosovo Albanians were arrested in the southwestern Kosovo town of Prizren on illegal possession of arms and causing general danger charges.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, August 31, 2009
Kosovo police, KPS, spokesman Arber Beka said that all four were Albanians, one of them a citizen of the United States.
The four were arrested on Friday, placed in 48-hour detention, and they were expected to remain in custody by the judge for 30 days.
Two AK-47 assault rifles were found as the suspects were arrested, along with a hunting rifle, a carbine, a pistol, five hand grenades, an air rifle, 235 pieces of various ammunition, 22 pieces of ammunition for the hunting rifle - and a laptop computer.
The spokesman said it was "still too early for the claims" that the four had connections with terrorism and radical Islamists, and that this would be determined during the investigation.
Albanian language media in Pristina reported that the arrest came in cooperation with the American FBI, but the KPS spokesman would neither confirm nor deny this.
The arrests came a month after KPS announced it had helped out an FBI investigation which led to arrests of Kosovo Albanians stateside, suspected of planning terrorist attacks abroad along with six Americans.
