06 April 2001
U.S. Forces Shoot Albanian Man
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - American peacekeepers shot an ethnic Albanian
man Friday in an eastern Kosovo town near the Macedonian border, a U.S. Army
spokeswoman said. Circumstances of the shooting weren't immediately released.
The American troops - part of the NATO (news - web sites)-led force monitoring
the peace in Kosovo - were on routine patrol in the town of Vitina when they
entered a building and shot the man as he fled from the soldiers, said
Capt. Alayne Cramer, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army forces who control
that section of Kosovo.
The military was still pulling together information on the shooting and didn't
have further details, Cramer said.
The man was transported by U.S. soldiers to the hospital at the Americanbase,
Camp Bondsteel, for treatment. He will be detained, Cramer said.
No American peacekeepers were injured.
The NATO-led force moved into Kosovo almost two years ago to protect ethnic
Albanians from atrocities by Serbian troops.
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