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Macedonia: "Al-Qaeda had training camps in Macedonia" Via B92 : Al-Quaeda had three training camps in Macedonia, claims retired professor of the Skopje Faculty of Security Ivan Babamovski. (...) Babamovski stated that 25 members of "an ethnic group" in Macedonia had undergone terrorist training in Tehran, Iran, and that one of the leaders of that community had been to Qom, the Shia spiritual center, where he was trained in leading groups related to terrorism.  ( source )

 EU: German sues Macedonia for rendition Via AP : A German citizen took his claim that the CIA illegally whisked him to a secret prison in Afghanistan to Europe's human rights court Wednesday in what could be the final chapter of a case that has shed light on U.S. practices in the war on terror. Khaled El-Masri, who is of Lebanese descent, says he was brutally interrogated at a secret CIA-run prison in Afghanistan for more than four months after being kidnapped from Macedonia in 2003, apparently mistaken for a terror suspect. He says he went on a hunger strike for 27 days and was eventually flown back to Europe and abandoned in a mountainous area in Albania. ( source )

Macedonia: Protests signal surge of radical Islam Via EurActiv : There is widespread belief among analysts and the Macedonian public that the protests are intended to destabilise Macedonia prior to the NATO summit in Chicago on 20-21 May. Macedonia�s bid to join NATO was blocked in 2008 by Greece over the long-standing name dispute between Athens and Skopje. Some analysts in the region now worry of renewed attempts to carve out an ethnic Albanian state in western Macedonia. ( source )

Macedonia: Thousands of ethnic Albanians protest jailing of co-nationals Via AKI : Thousands of ethnic Albanians on Friday protested in the capital Skopje and several other cities over the jailing of five of their co-nationals in connection of killing of five Macedonians last April. Demonstrators carried banners �Muslims are not terrorists�, �Pristina, Tirana � ethnic Albania� and glorifying the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which fought for Kosovo independence from Serbia. Demonstrators smashed windows on the government building in Skopje, but there were no other major incidents. Protests were also held in other Albanian-populated cities like Tetovo, Debar, Kicevo, Struga and Gostivar. ( source )

Macedonia: Albanians Protest Police Arrests   Via Balkan Insight : About a thousand mainly young Albanians gathered for the protest in Skopje�s Cair municipality after the end of midday prayers in Skopje�s Jaja Pasha Mosque. Chanting �Allah is great�, �Those who don�t protest are traitors� and �We will not allow rigged trials�, the group started by marching towards the Skopje court building, heading later towards the government building, demanding the release of all ethnic Albanians detained in Tuesday�s police action. �I am here to express my revolt against the police arrests of innocent Albanians,� one youth told Balkan Insight. �Albanians are not terrorists but there will be trouble as long as the Macedonian police treat them as such,� another said. ( source ) Some of the protestors held the black Jihad flag .

Macedonia: radical Islamists for lake murders Via EurActiv : Police in Macedonia arrested 20 people yesterday (1 May), including radical Islamists who reportedly fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, for the murder of five men at a lake near the capital Skopje in mid-April. On 13 April five slain Macedonian fishermen were discovered beside a lake at the village of Smiljkovci north of Skopje. Four of the victims were in their late teens or early 20s. The fifth was a man in his 40s. Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska said 20 people had been arrested in raids involving 800 police officers at more than 20 locations around the capital. Some would be charged with terrorism, and that the motive behind the attack had been "to spread fear", Jankulovska said. Most of those arrested were Macedonian citizens, she added. ( source )