11.   Serbian policemen barked, he recounted.

12.   Serbian special policemen eventually seized the mine, carrying weakened miners out on stretchers.

13.   Thaci inspired fear and respect in his home base of the central Drenica region in Kosovo as he organized armed units and carried out ambushes against Serbian policemen.

14.   The explosion was finally touched off in February when KLA forces ambushed and killed four Serbian policemen.

15.   The men were flanked by Serbian policemen, he said.

16.   The militants operate almost freely there, where NATO peacekeepers cannot go and Serbian policemen may enter only with light arms.

17.   The Serbian policeman died when he and other officers went to investigate.

18.   They said Serbian policemen stopped the group at a nearby checkpoint and ordered them to produce identity cards.

19.   Twenty Albanians and two Serbian policemen were killed, the Serbian Interior Ministry said.

20.   A Serbian policeman killed in the fighting was to be buried Thursday.