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Reuters reports today that the United Nations wants an independent inquiry into Kosovo-Metohija’s supposedly “top-security” Dubrava prison after seven inmates, including convicted murderers and terrorists, escaped with the help of their guards.

According to Reuters, five prison guards have been charged with aiding Saturday’s break-out, and four other people have been arrested on suspicion of providing covering fire for the escape outside the prison walls with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.

The U.N. mission in charge of security in the southern Serbian province since the 1999 NATO aggression on FR Yugoslavia said on Wednesday it wanted to hold “an independent evaluation of conditions at the [ethnic-Albanian run] Dubrava prison.” The probe would try to “ascertain all the facts and ensure there are safeguards in the future to avoid anything else like this happening again,” said spokesman Alexander Ivanko.

Saudi-Born Islamic Terrorist and Albanian ‘Commander Nazi’ Among the Escapees

London Times wrote yesterday that among the escapees were Ramadan Shiti, a Saudi-born Islamic terrorist expelled from his native country for plotting an attack on senior public figures, and Lirim Jakupi, a leader of the terrorist Albanian National Army - a KLA-splinter terrorist group with a goal of establishing Greater Albania by severing parts of Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and FYR Macedonia and adjoining them to Albania. Nicknamed Commander Nazi, Jakupi was being held over the murder of Serbian policemen and other terrorist acts.

Shiti had been arrested in 2005 by US, Polish and Ukrainian forces acting for the UN on an international arrest warrant after an armed break-out earlier that year from a jail in Skopje, the Macedonian capital, where he was held over the murder of a taxi driver. He has also been linked with a bomb attack on a police station in Skopje (FYR Macedonia) in 2005.

Jakupi has been named on an EU blacklist of terrorists making him subject to a travel ban.

Also in the freed group was Xhavid Morina, known as Commander Drenica, another senior figure in the terrorist ANA and charged with the murder of two police officers.

Impotent UNMIK, Paralyzed NATO Let Serbian Province Turn Into Islamic Terrorist Safe Haven

Although the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), with around 1,300 police officers stationed in the Serbian province claims it has no direct role at the prison, the escape is considered another embarrassment for the mission and the 16,000-strong NATO-led peace force.

One of those who broke out was armed with a pistol, while another was making his seventh escape from prison.

A Kosovo Albanian police spokesman acknowledged the convicts might already have slipped across the province’s porous borders into neighboring FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro or Albania. A NATO spokesman said Alliance forces “could help with the manhunt if necessary.”