British troops rushed to Kosovo as PM indicted.A BRITISH army The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with unification of the governments and armed forces of England and Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. battalion has been sent to Kosovo after the UN mission in the Serb province raised its security threat level to Stage Black. The reason for the sudden call on 500 troops from the Royal Green Jackets The Royal Green Jackets (RGJ) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, one of two within the Light Division (the other being The Light Infantry). It was formed in 1966 by the amalgamation of the three separate regiments of the Green Jackets Brigade: Ramush Haradinaj revealed during a government session that he had been indicted and would step down. Haradinaj, a former leader of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army The Kosovo Liberation Army or KLA (Albanian: Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës or UÇK) was an ethnic Albanian paramilitary extremist group which sought independence for the province of Kosovo from Yugoslavia and Serbia in the late 1990s. , appealed to his Cabinet to remain calm, the officials said. The UN advised its non-essential staff to remain at home in western Kosovo due to a police operation. The UN mission in Kosovo elevated its security threat level around the western Kosovo town of Pec, said the UN's spokeswoman in Kosovo. Stage Black means only essential staff have to report for duty. Western Kosovo is Haradinaj's home region. He was questioned late last year by the UN war crimes investigators for his role in Kosovo's 1998-1999 war |
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