WRAP Serb tanks near border, Mitrovica demo, Friday prayers

(22 Feb 2008) SHOTLIST Mitrovica 1. Wide top shot of rally showing bridge dividing North and South Mitrovica; UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo) police sealing bridge 2. Riot police 3. Protesters waving Serbian flags and chanting slogans 4. Riot police with batons and shields 5. KFOR (NATO led Kosovo Force) helicopter flying overhead 6. Bridge, demonstration 7. Top shot of riot police 8. Riot police moving into position 9. Top shot of demonstration 10. Wide of demonstrators, smoke in the crowds, UPSOUND firecrackers and demonstrators chanting 11. Mid of riot police 12. Wide demonstrators, UPSOUND firecrackers 13. Wide of riot police, firecracker being fired by demonstrators in foreground, smoke 14. Wide demonstrators briefly dispersing, UPSOUND firecrackers Merdare 15. Wide of border crossing with Serbia and Kosovo 16. Signs on side of road reading 'Merdare' and 'STOP' 17. NATO soldier looking toward Serbia proper with binoculars 18. Wide of Serbian military tanks on the Serbian side of the border 19. Kosovo border police officer with binoculars watching Serb tanks on the other side of the border 20. Wide of the Serbian military tanks on the Serb side of the border Pristina 21. Exterior of main mosque in central Pristina 22. Tilt down interior of people praying inside the mosque 23. Close up of Kosovo Albanians praying 24. Window, people outside 25. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Naim Ternava, Head of Kosovo's Muslim community: "We thank all the counties, governments and their people that give support and recognition to our new born county. Forever we need to remember their support and we need not to forget all those countries who do support us, we need them to feel proud of us, we will not fail them." 26. People inside the mosque praying 27. Various of Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci meeting head of EU representatives, Peter Faith 28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Faith, Head of EU representatives: "I would like to ensure that the people in the country should have confidence in the government and in the international community particularly in UN and NATO to help and assure the territorial integrity of Kosovo that is the signal I wanted to give." 29. Wide of both officials 30. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Hashim Thaci, Kosovo Prime Minister: "The Serb reactions are not only toward Kosovo being independent. But toward the entire democratic world. This is confrontation with civilisation. And people who acted like that, should take responsibility for it." 31. Wide of both officials leaving STORYLINE Serbs protesting against Kosovo's independence attacked UN police guarding a key bridge in northern Kosovo with stones and empty glass bottles Friday. Some 5,000 Serbs rallied in this tense town, waving Serbian flags and chanting "Kosovo is ours!" in a fifth day of protests since Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence last weekend. In a brief skirmish with UN police, protesters lobbed firecrackers. No one appeared to be injured, and no tear gas was fired as earlier reported. The Kosovska Mitrovica bridge over the Ibar River - dividing Kosovo Serbs from ethnic Albanians - has long been a flashpoint of tensions in Kosovo's restive north. About 100 riot police with batons and shields further blocked any attempts by demonstrators to cross Kosovska Mitrovica bridge over the Ibar River. Mitrovica is an ethnically divided town, with predominantly ethnic Albanians living in the south and Serb districts in the north. Riot police in formation blocked a road leading to the bridge, preventing thousands of ethnic Serbs from moving ahead. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...