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ROME - The Italian police have discovered a channel by which arms has for months been smuggled to the terrorist-separatist KLA in Kosovo and Metohija in the form of humanitarian deliveries, Trieste judicial authorities said Friday.
Various types of weapons were smuggled to the separatists in Serbia's southern province from Switzerland via Italy and Albania.
A court spokesman told a news conference that the Italian police, in cooperation with their Swiss colleagues, had arrested four persons involved in the smuggling ring.
The police had searched for the four ethnic Albanians since Feb. 9, when a large quantity of weapons were seized in the port of Trieste.
As many as 32,000 bullets, 40 rifles, automatic weapons, explosives, radio receivers for satellite communications, and complete uniforms were seized at the time, the spokesman specified.
He said that Italian police would continue the investigation, as there were indications that one of the chief organizers of the smuggling ring was at large in Switzerland.
The Italian police have issued warrants for the arrest of a number of other persons, including an Albanian official of the Mother Theresa humanitarian society of Lucerne.