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...Bosnia may be tempted to resolve their seemingly irreconcilable differences at the expense of the Bosnian Serbs. The spoils from a joint military campaign to expel the Bosnian Serb nation would be allocated mainly to a Muslim entity, which would then accept its lot as a satellite of Greater Croatia. There is a precedent for what amounts to "benign ethnic cleansing." Croatia, with Washington's blessing, invaded the U.N.-protected Krajina region in August last year and murderously drove the Krajina Serbs from their ancestral lands. The Dayton accord is in essence a temporary cease-fire. It can be made...
Washington privately scolded Bosnia and Croatia for failing to rid Bosnian soil of foreign fighters by last Friday's deadline. The U.S. is angry that Croatia has allowed some of its troops to remain inside Bosnia, and even more rattled that the Bosnian government has allowed half of the some 600 foreign mujahedin it believes were in the country to remain behind. The Pentagon fears anti-American terrorists are hidden within their ranks. Washington has threatened to cut off arms and military training for Bosnian forces if the Islamic freedom fighters aren't booted...
Burglars broke into the U.N. Center for Human Rights in Zagreb, Croatia, and stole four computers containing data on human-rights violations in Croatia that had been gathered during four years of research. While some of the information had been copied and stored elsewhere, the rest was not backed up anywhere, making the loss appear irretrievable. Said the center's director: "At this point we would like to avoid any political interpretation" of the data's theft...
...sort of thing," says retired Army Lieut. General Harry Soyster. "It can be done pretty quickly." Formerly the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Soyster, MPRI's operations chief, is the only official who speaks publicly for the company. For the past year, MPRI has had 15 men in Croatia, a group headed by retired two-star General Richard Griffitts. They have been teaching the Croats to run a military force in a democracy, and recently signed a second contract to reorganize Croatia's Defense Ministry. Also during the past year, MPRI, under a State Department contract, has been monitoring...
...Croatia gave a dramatic demonstration of military power last August, when it drove rebel Serbs from the Krajina region. That offensive took place seven months after MPRI began its work in the country. Serb and European military analysts suggested that the Croats had outside help, and MPRI quickly found itself on the defensive. But Soyster insists MPRI's role in Croatia is limited to classroom instruction on military-civil relations and doesn't involve training in tactics or weapons. Other U.S. military men say whatever MPRI did for the Croats--and many suspect more than classroom instruction was involved...