Police seize massive cache of explosives in Kosovo

'We don't know yet what the explosive was intended for, but it sure wasn't for fishing,' said Beqir Kelmendi, a senior police official in Pec, estimating that the amount seized was enough to 'blow up several buildings.'

The generally accepted view is that there are more than around 400,000 guns lying around in Kosovo. While an armed militia is welcome considering the situation Kosovo is in and the cost of a standing army to compete with neighboring threats, that many guns coupled with the backlog of legal cases over property disputes have led to many firearm deaths after the war. One has to love though the European naivete of making the police and the KPC members carry only hand guns, just in case Albanians get armed too much. The way I see it, 400,000 is a long way to catch up with Switzerland.   

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