1. A coast guard officer was killed during a shootout Saturday with heavily armed Albanian smugglers near the island of Corfu. 2. A coast guard officer was killed in a Saturday shootout with heavily armed Albanian smugglers near the island of Corfu. 3. Albanian smugglers ferry immigrants across Adriatic to Italy. 4. In both incidents, large groups of Albanian smugglers exchanged fire with Yugoslav army soldiers as they tried to cross, the center said. 5. Last month, a Greek coast guard officer was killed during a shootout with heavily armed Albanian smugglers in waters just off the coast of Corfu. 6. Police reportedly seized two boats used to ferry refugees across the Adriatic and arrested an Albanian smuggler. 7. Troops told Mladenovic that it was the first time they had seized land mines from ethnic Albanian smugglers. 8. Just prior to the incident, they had arrested another suspected Albanian smuggler in the Aegean. |