Moreover, it is in the interests of the Albanian separatists to accuse Arkan.

ECONOMIST: Arkan, perhaps sighted, surely wanted

Yakovenko attributed the tension to the "destructive activity of terrorists, " a reference to Albanian separatists whom Russia maintains NATO has failed to disarm.

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Then, too, at its 1998 meeting in Pakistan, the Organization of the Islamic Conference declared that the Albanian separatists in Kosovo were fighting a jihad.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Kosovo's stark warning

Others, we are told, are legitimate and well-calibrated military moves against Albanian separatists, like the one in late July which emptied the central Kosovo town of Malisevo.

ECONOMIST: Its refugees are paying the price of western hesitation

Yugoslav officials say the ethnic Albanian refugees leaving Kosovo have been driven from their homes by fighting between Albanian separatists of the Kosovo Liberation Army and Serb forces, not by any offensive against civilians.

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The campaign against Albanian separatists in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo by the Serbian-led Yugoslav army and security forces prompted NATO countries to launch a three-month campaign of aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia in 1999.

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