The Counter-Terrorism Unit of the Kosovo Police Service (KPS), under the supervision of EULEX prosecutor, arrested an ethnic Kosovo Albanian in the region of Kosovska Mitrovica, whose extradition the USA demands over terrorism, EULEX said in a statement for the media, but did not give any name.

According to the statement, the USA public prosecutor for the Eastern District of North Carolina charged the arrested with criminal acts of providing material support or resources to terrorists, supporting terrorism or conspiracy to murder, kidnapping, disabling or causing injury to persons or causing damage to property in a foreign country.

The KPS searched the house where they nailed the criminal down, all in scope of the U.S. extradition warrant submitted to the (interim) Kosovo authorities. The search and arrest warrant was issued by the pre-trial EULEX judge at the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica, EULEX added.

It said the Kosovo Albanian man, later identified by the US Department of Justice as Bajram Asllani, 29, or "Ebu Hatab," is charged on two counts: "the provision of material support or resources to terrorists, support for terrorism and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure persons or damage property in a foreign country."

The suspect is wanted by the US Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina and the United States "intends to seek his extradition from Kosovo to stand trial" there, the US Department of Justice said in a statement issued in Washington.

"In accordance with the extradition agreement between the United States and Kosovo, Asllani faces a potential maximum of 40 years in prison if convicted," the statement said.

"The facts as alleged in this complaint underscore the connectivity between extremists at home and abroad and the global nature of the terrorist threat we face," said David Kris, US Assistant Attorney General for National Security in a statement.

Asllani allegedly conspired with a group of eight suspects arrested in the United States in 2009 and indicted in North Carolina.

The eight are all US citizens apart from Hysen Sherifi, a Kosovo native with legal permanent residence in the United States.

Last September, new charges were added for three of the accused -- among them Sherifi -- for "conspiring to murder US military personnel as part of a plot to attack troops at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico," the statement said.

On Thursday, a criminal complaint issued in April, was unsealed, alleging that Asllani was a member of the conspiracy involving the eight, including "soliciting money from the conspirators to establish a base of operations in Kosovo for the purpose of waging violent jihad."

According to the complaint, Sherifi was in Kosovo in 2008 and "allegedly formed a relationship with Asllani," who had provided him with "videos related to violent jihad... so they could be used to recruit others for violent jihad."

Asllani allegedly directed Sherifi to collect money for "purchasing land and establishing a community in Kosovo, where they could store weapons and ammunition and which they could use as a base of operations for conducting violent jihad in Kosovo and other countries," the complaint said.

But Sherifi was arrested in the United States in July 2009, before he could take money to Asllani in Kosovo.

In 2009, a Serbian court sentenced Aslani in absentia to eight years in prison "for planning terrorist-related offenses."

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February 2009 and is recognised by 69 countries, despite Belgrade's fierce opposition.

Its police, customs and judiciary system remain supervised by the EULEX rule of law mission which deployed in December 2008.