NATO Retracts Sniper Report
The NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo on Thursday retracted an assertion that an ethnic Albanian man killed by its soldiers had been a sniper firing at them.
The peacekeepers said it had at first appeared beyond doubt that Avni Haradinaj was one of several snipers involved in gun battles Sunday in the northern city of Kosovska Mitrovica but that subsequent investigations found the picture was less clear.
They said it still was clear Haradinaj had been among a group of gunmen in the city Sunday but that, because his body had been released to his family and buried, it was impossible to say more.
Reports in the ethnic Albanian media said that Haradinaj, 35, was unarmed.
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