CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo (Army News Service, April 2,
2001) - Soldiers in the American sector of Kosovo confiscated
several caches of weapons last week near the Macedonian border
and detained more than 30 suspected guerrilla supporters.
        The seizures included a large number of weapons,
ammunition, grenades and mines found March 31 in an abandoned
extremist camp south of the Kosovo town of Krivenik.
        A patrol of Polish soldiers from the Polish-Ukrainian
Battalion found the abandoned camp Saturday night.  They
confiscated 59 rocket-propelled grenades, three machine guns
with more than 12,000 rounds of ammunition, a shoulder-fired
anti-tank rocket, 133 mortar rounds and fuses, 59 F-1 grenades,
16 M-70 grenades, 67 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines and 300
grams of TNT.
        The cache was initially taken to the Polish-Ukranian
battalion base camp, White Eagle, for processing and inventory.
The battalion is under the Multinational Brigade East headed up
by the 1st Armored Division at Camp Bondsteel. The weapons cache
will be taken to Camp Bondsteel for further processing,
officials said.
        Norwegian KFOR soldiers also discovered a weapons cache
near the border town of Gorno Zlokucane March 30.
        Equipment confiscated included three AK-47s, two SKS
rifles, one machine gun, 400 rounds of small-arms ammunition,
one hand grenade and one German high-explosive anti-tank rocket.
They later detained 11 suspects near Kosovo's border with the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
        "We will continue our increased efforts to interdict
materiel support for extremists that are attempting to operate
in Kosovo or attempting to export violence into the FYROM," said
Col. Tom Gross, Task Force Falcon chief of staff. He said the
seizures demonstrate the Kosovo Force's ability to secure the
border.