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| ЧЕСТИТО НА ВСИЧКИ БЪЛГАРИ! BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED IN MACEDONIAa Monday August 27 6:28 AM ET ........... Ian Collins, 20, of Britain's 9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers, was driving an armored vehicle outside the capital, Skopje, at 7:40 p.m. Sunday when he was attacked, British military officials said. They said he suffered head injuries. Another person was inside the vehicle, which was believed to be traveling on a military route, but was uninjured, a British Ministry of Defense spokesman said. Collins was taken to the U.S. Army's Base in Macedonia, Camp Able Sentry, and then on to the U.S. hospital at Camp Bondsteel in neighboring Kosovo. He was later transported back to Skopje University Hospital, where he died. The slaying caused unease as NATO geared up Monday to begin the British-led mission, Operation Essential Harvest, to collect weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels. Though ethnic Albanians generally welcome the deployment, ethnic Macedonians have been suspicious and sometimes hostile to the presence of foreign troops. But NATO said it would not postpone or cancel the mission. ''This regrettable incident will not effect the resolve of Task Force Harvest to complete the mission,'' Brig. Barney White-Spunner, the top-ranking British commander, said in a statement. About 1,400 British soldiers will take part in the mission, which will involve roughly 3,500 troops, many of whom already have arrived in Macedonia. Several hundred Americans also will participate, mostly in a behind-the-scenes role focusing on logistical duties. Underscoring the tensions in the troubled Balkan country, a large crowd of angry Macedonians gathered in Tetovo, Macedonia's second-largest city, in an attempt to block the army from withdrawing from an area near a NATO weapons-collection site. Early Monday and late Sunday, two bomb blasts rocked Skopje. Both attacks occurred near shopping areas, but no injuries were reported. Macedonians largely blame NATO for the country's six-month ethnic Albanian insurgency, accusing the alliance of failing to choke off weapons and supplies coming from Kosovo - support that is widely believed to be helping the rebels. The slaying occurred just as Macedonian forces began pulling back from positions around sites where NATO will begin collecting weapons from the militants. The collection is part of a peace plan meant to avert civil war. NATO is planning to collect 3,300 weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels in a mission scheduled to last for no more than 30 days. French and British troops were to fly out to a site Monday which they will secure in preparation for the arrival of rebels, known as the National Liberation Army. The insurgents will surrender weapons as part of a peace plan designed to end six months of conflict. Despite NATO optimism about the mission, Macedonian government officials later said they did not agree with the alliance's figures on the number of weapons. Premier Ljubco Georgievski called the figure ''ridiculous and humiliating,'' saying the true number was closer to 60,000. His statement underscored the problems the NATO mission will face. И ОЩЕ ЩЕ ГО ПОСЛЕДВАТ! |