{"id":58781,"date":"2015-06-01T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=58781"},"modified":"2015-05-28T19:07:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T18:07:52","slug":"failure-of-the-us-coup-detat-in-macedonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/06\/failure-of-the-us-coup-detat-in-macedonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure of the US Coup d\u2019\u00c9tat in Macedonia"},"content":{"rendered":"

23 May 2015 – Macedonia has just neutralised an armed group whose sponsors had been under surveillance for at least eight months. By doing so, it has prevented a new attempt at a coup d\u2019\u00c9tat, planned by Washington for the 17th of May. The aim was to spread the chaos already infecting Ukraine into Macedonia in order to stall the passage of a Russian gas pipeline to the European Union.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Macedonian Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, announces the end of the assault against the terrorists.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Kumanavo Affair<\/em><\/p>\n

On the 9th of May, 2015, the Macedonian police launched a dawn operation to arrest an armed group which had infiltrated the country and which was suspected of preparing a number of attacks.<\/p>\n

The police evacuated the civilian population before launching the assault. The suspects opened fire, which led to a bitter firefight, leaving 14 terrorists and 8 members of the police forces dead. 30 people were taken prisoner. There were a large number of wounded<\/p>\n

Not A Terrorist Act, but an Attempted Coup d\u2019\u00c9tat<\/em><\/p>\n

The Macedonian police were clearly well-informed before they launched their operation. According to the Minister for the Interior, Ivo Kotevski, the group was preparing a very important operation for the 17th May (the date of the demonstration organised by the Albanophone opposition in Skopje).
\nThe identification of the suspects has made it possible to determine that they were almost all ex-members of the U\u00c7K (Kosovo Liberation Army)\u00a0[1].<\/p>\n

Among them were :<\/p>\n