(From AP: Bombings inflame tensions in Kosovo -- Over the past week, there have been four bombings…. But parliament speaker Kole Berisha insists the violence is a deliberate attempt to destabilize Kosovo at a delicate stage in its drive for statehood…. But the chances of more violence like the March 2004 riots that killed 19 people and displaced thousands "are unfortunately rather high," warned Alex Anderson, Kosovo project director for the International Crisis Group….) Posted on September 15, 2006: There will likely be more violent acts like this one as the current final status talks draw to a close -- and possibly for some time after. From AP:
Kosovo interior minister's car bombed Fri Sep 15, 6:29 AM ET A bomb placed under the Kosovo interior minister's car exploded early Friday in an eastern town in the U.N.-run province, police said. No one was hurt by the blast, which occurred a few hours before Serbian and ethnic Albanian negotiators in Vienna, Austria, resumed contentious U.N.-brokered talks on Kosovo's future status. Kosovo's parliament speaker said he considered the explosion to be directed against the talks.