BANJA LUKA - About 100 Serbs pelted NATO soldiers with stones yesterday as they guarded a television transmitter in north-eastern Bosnian Serb territory, a UN spokesman said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries and the UN did not specify who the attackers were, but hardliners loyal to indicted war criminal, Dr Radovan Karadzic, have attempted several times to retake the transmitter from SFOR.
A reporter in the tense northeast of Bosnian Serb territory, where Dr Karadzic is locked in a power struggle with Westernbacked President Biljana Plavsic, said a small crowd jeered and threw rocks at a convoy of US armoured vehicles just outside Ugljevic, on the road between Bijeljina and Tuzla.
The incident came just five days after US soldiers under NATO command were attacked by an angry mob in the eastern town of Brcko. Two soldiers were injured in the riot, one of them seriously, and the attack was condemned by the White House and NATO. - (Reuter)