Norwegian troops raid suspected troublemakers

(23 Mar 2004)
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1. Travelling shot of Armoured Personnel Carriers driving along road
2. Troops approaching target area
3. Norwegian KFOR troops approaching house
4. KFOR troops slamming door and grenade going off
5. Armoured Personnel Carrier
6. Masked Norwegian troops smashing in door & beginning searches
7. KFOR troops sweeping property with weapons
8. Soldiers searching in loft of a barn
9. Various balaclavaed troops sweeping garden area
10. KFOR troops entering outhouse
11. Masked soldier pointing automatic weapon
12. KFOR soldier standing guard over captured man
13. Arrested man with masking tape over mouth and covered with a duvet
14. Automatic weapon
15. Masked KFOR troops going through the arrested man's personal effects
16. Military police placing arrested man in van
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain Jan Harald Tomassen, Press Officer for Norwegian Task Force
"The KFOR units have searched several houses and there have also been some arrests. What we have found will be analysed and the people questioned. All this is to get some information that can explain why we have increasing violence here in Kosovo."
18. Various soldiers taking evidence from the scene in bin bags
19. Soldiers placing bags in back of Armoured Personnel Carrier
20. Wide shot of several Armoured Personnel Carriers leaving area

Storyline:

Norwegian KFOR troops began early morning raids on Tuesday on key suspects allegedly involved in instigating last week's major civil unrest in Kosovo.

Masked troops stormed properties in the mixed Albanian and Serb town of Obilic, eight kilometres north west of the province's capital of Pristina.

KFOR said several suspects were detained for questioning and items were removed from the properties for further investigation.

The action came just hours after NATOs Secretary General was in Pristina and the International Community vowed to do its utmost to find those responsible for the violence.

About 600 people were injured and four-thousand left homeless after a week of violence in the province between Albanians and Serbs.

Authorities estimated that mobs destroyed 286 houses and damaged or destroyed 30 churches or monasteries.

It was worst outbreak of violence since 1999, when a NATO air war ended a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanians seeking independence.

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