 The was also an alleged NLA bombing of the 13th-century Orthodox monastery Sveti Atanasij in the village of Lesok.However, no one has ever claimed responsibility for the attack and Albanian guerrilla officials have dismissed all responsibility and placed the blame on Macedonian special forces, saying it was another poor attempt to link the NLA to Islamic extremism, like that of the Asian immigrant massacre, and that these incidents were putting the Ohrid Agreement and the established peace treaty into jeopardy.Eyewitnesses interviewed by British Telegraph claimed that participants in this incident came from the ethnic Macedonian village of Rate.