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NATO stops cigarette smugglers entering Kosovo 

NATO soldiers, urged on by the Kosovo Liberation Army, on Friday began cracking down on Albanian cigarette profiteers trying to enter Kosovo along with thousands of refugees.

The former KLA fighters turned customs officials, who handed over the Morina border post to German NATO troops on Wednesday and are now unarmed in civilian clothes, do not want smugglers exploiting refugees as they make the long trek home.

German soldiers weeded out the cigarette sellers from the heaving mass of several thousand refugees and told them to hand over the contraband or go back to Albania.

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