The Macedonian police's operation in the Tetovo village of Brodec was successful, U.S. State Department Spokesman Tom Casey said at the regular press briefing in Washington.
"This was a successful and legitimate operation carried out by multiethnic police forces against a group that included a few criminals against whom arrest warrants had been issued. Some of them were escapees from a prison in Kosovo," Casey said.

The State Department spokesman stressed that there is no information that this group had ties with Vehabists, MIA news agency reports.
"We are satisfied that they were arrested and that the materials that were in their possession were confiscated. We encourage the authorities to work towards normalizing the situation in this village quickly," Tom Casey said.