One teacher told KFOR she lay on top of six students in the bathroom.
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NATO's peacekeeping KFOR force has increased patrols on the Kosovo side of the border.
Today, KFOR deters renewed hostilities in cooperation with local authorities, bilateral partners, and international institutions.
"Robust patrolling" of the Macedonian border by KFOR was NATO's preferred solution to preventing infiltrations, he said.
Aerial video from KFOR and CNN affiliate KOCO showed severe damage near Wellston and near Carney, Oklahoma.
Dozens of protesters have been injured in scuffles, although KFOR has so far refrained from using serious force.
"It was just like the movie 'Twister, '" he told CNN affiliate KFOR.
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U.N. and KFOR officials said they were not concerned by the lack of information and denied that the U.N.
"No requests for security have been made, " said KFOR spokesman Major Scott Slaten.
Security Council authorized Member States to establish a NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) in Resolution 1244 on June 10, 1999.
Viewed from the air, the extent of the damage was staggering, said John Welsh, a helicopter pilot for KFOR.
"Any attack on KFOR soldiers is totally unacceptable and I condemn this action in the very strongest terms, " Skiaker said.
That record includes the impressive investigative research conducted by Jayna Davis , a former reporter with Oklahoma City's KFOR television station.
Students who got out said they hugged and clung to walls as the tornado passed through, according to CNN affiliate KFOR.
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One tornado touched down near Wellston, Oklahoma, taking out power lines and damaging several homes, according to video from CNN affiliate KFOR.
"We had to pull a car off a teacher and she had three little kids underneath her, " one first responder, in tears, told KFOR.
Officials had managed to bus some children to a nearby church, which turned out to be clear of the tornado's direct path, KFOR reported.
The principal military tasks of KFOR forces are to help maintain a safe and secure environment and to ensure freedom of movement throughout Kosovo.
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Early Monday, KLA and KFOR commanders approved a demilitarization agreement requiring the KLA to cease all hostilities, abandon its checkpoints and stockpile heavy weaponry.
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As Yugoslav forces leave, British forces would enter from Macedonia to serve as the vanguard of a 50, 000-strong NATO-led force in Kosovo, known as KFOR.
The NATO peacekeeping force, KFOR, wants to clear the barricades.
The United States contribution to KFOR is approximately 760 U.S. military personnel out of the total strength of approximately 5, 989 personnel, which includes a temporarily deployed operational reserve force.
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Many senior Kfor men say that the close former relations between the Americans and the Kosovar Albanians make it hard to explain now to Albanians that things have changed.
The United States contribution to KFOR is approximately 817 U.S. military personnel out of the total strength of approximately 6, 401 personnel, which includes a temporarily deployed Operational Reserve Force.
But Ms. Davis, who was covering the case at the time for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, says in fact there was a John Doe No. 2, and that she has identified him.
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The original mission of KFOR was to monitor, verify, and, when necessary, enforce compliance with the Military Technical Agreement between NATO and the then-Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now Serbia), while maintaining a safe and secure environment.
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Currently, 22 NATO Allies contribute to KFOR.
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Belgrade has made no requests to the NATO-led peacekeeping force, KFOR, to protect Serb voters from possible ethnic Albanian violence, and given no hint of when ballot boxes and officials will arrive or where they will be set up.
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