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NATO Seals Kosovo Borders

Troops called in after mobs burn border posts

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(Newser) – NATO peacekeepers have sealed off Kosovo's northern borders after angry mobs torched border posts, the BBC reports. US troops have blocked the main road to Serbia, and French and Estonian troops have cut off the crossing to Montenegro. The move is bound to infuriate Serbs both in Kosovo and Serbia, where the foreign minister yesterday vowed that Kosovo would be a part of his nation forever.

NATO troops were called in after crowds arrived in what appeared to have been a carefully planned action and burned border stations at Jarinje and Banja, then leveled them with bulldozers and explosives. UN troops and Kosovo police were forced to withdraw. Witnesses said hundreds of vehicles packed with men crossed from Serbia earlier in the day, the Guardian reports. Fears are growing that Kosovo may be partitioned.

A Serb passerby views the burnt out and looted border station connecting Serbia with the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, near Brnjak, in Kosovo, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephania Mizara)
A Serb passerby views the burnt out and looted border station connecting Serbia with the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, near Brnjak, in Kosovo, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephania...   (Associated Press)
A Kosovo Serb villager walks past the cordon of US soldiers serving in KFOR standing guard in front of their base entrance in the village of Leposavic, near the Serbia-Kosovo border, Tuesday, Feb.19, 2008. Serbs torched UN checkpoints between Serbia and Kosovo to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence and...
A Kosovo Serb villager walks past the cordon of US soldiers serving in KFOR standing guard in front of their base entrance in the village of Leposavic, near the Serbia-Kosovo border, Tuesday, Feb.19,...   (Associated Press)
French soldiers serving in KFOR stand guard in front of their base entrancenear the Serbia-Kosovo border, Tuesday, Feb.19, 2008. Serbs torched UN checkpoints between Serbia and Kosovo to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence and international recognition of the new nation. They set fire to two border crossings that are...
French soldiers serving in KFOR stand guard in front of their base entrancenear the Serbia-Kosovo border, Tuesday, Feb.19, 2008. Serbs torched UN checkpoints between Serbia and Kosovo to protest Kosovo's...   (Associated Press)
KFOR vehicles drive past graffiti drawn on a wall in the eastern Kosovo town of Gnjilane on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia over the weekend and was swiftly recognized by the U.S. and Europe's major powers, but the new country has run into opposition from...
KFOR vehicles drive past graffiti drawn on a wall in the eastern Kosovo town of Gnjilane on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia over the weekend and was swiftly recognized...   (Associated Press)
UN police officers burn the remains of documents at the burnt out and looted border station connecting Serbia with the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, near Brnjak, in Kosovo, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Serbia lost control over Kosovo, whose two-million population is 90 percent Albanian, since NATO bombing drove...
UN police officers burn the remains of documents at the burnt out and looted border station connecting Serbia with the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, near Brnjak, in Kosovo, Tuesday, Feb....   (Associated Press)
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