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...intelligence estimates that nearly one-third of the 50,000 Muslim forces do not have enough heavy weapons. Until now, they have kept fighting by stealing arms left behind by the Yugoslav army and clearing smuggling channels through Croatia. That means they mainly use old Soviet-bloc equipment, and to save training time, Pentagon officials say, the U.S. may attempt to tap those former Warsaw Pact arsenals for additional materiel. Slovak plants could provide T-72 tanks. Small arms, including the Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle, might be obtained from Afghan arms bazaars or a sympathetic stockpiler like Syria. To counter...
...businessmen, who then procure the weapons. The smuggling routes also suggest how the newly sanctioned equipment would wend its way to Muslim fighters. Arms are shipped or flown to the Croatian capital of Zagreb, then transferred into Bosnia by lighter aircraft and trucks. But all equipment must pass through Croatia, which has extracted a sizable portion of the weapons that cross its lands. This Croatian usury is unlikely to diminish...
...only repeats that pattern. Sanctions have not measurably weakened Belgrade's resolve, and are not likely to. Indeed, the campaign in Bosnia is so unquestioned in Belgrade that the nominally democratic opposition last week hailed a plan to install a new parliament representing Serbs in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia -- a.k.a. Greater Serbia...
Before the Yugoslav federal army (now in reality the Serb army) moved into Croatia or Bosnia, it attempted an attack on Slovenia. They were met with determined and organized opposition and quickly pulled out. This action indicates that once the costs become too high, the Serbs will cease offensive action. It's just that the West has allowed the cost of aggression in Bosnia and Croatia to be pitifully...
...West has allowed the cost of aggression in Bosnia and Croatia to be pitifully...