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...pincer campaign to seize Kupres marks the first time the Muslims and Croats have fought as allies since they agreed to work together last spring. A firm alliance, much encouraged by Washington, could enhance Bosnia's military might by widening supply routes and bringing in Croat artillery. But U.N. observers warn that Croat cooperation in Kupres may simply be opportunistic -- a chance to advance their own territorial objectives...
Bosnian Army Gets Croat Help...
...Bosnian Croat militias joined the resurgent Muslim-led Bosnian army to retake Kupres, a town 60 miles west of Sarajevo, which had been overrun by Bosnian Serbs in 1992. The combined Croat-Muslim forces captured materiel abandoned by the fleeing Serbs. Meanwhile, the United Nations General Assembly voted to pass a nonbinding resolution exempting the Bosnian army from the arms embargo imposed by the Security Council...
...great surprise, since there was plenty in the plan for everyone to dislike. The Clinton Administration approved a partition that would award the Serbs title to towns they had purged of Muslims with violent "ethnic cleansing" -- something Washington had said it would never accept. The Bosnian government and its Croat-federation partners thought the 51% of the territory they would receive was too little. They may have said yes only because they expected the Serbs...
...Mladic, commander of the Bosnian Serb army. The Clinton Administration has compiled evidence of high-level involvement. "We can piece together a heck of a lot," says a U.S. official. A recent State Department report cites evidence that Mladic had "overall responsibility for the camp system." One witness, a Croat who had been an officer in the regular Yugoslav army and later spent 14 months in various Serb-run detention centers, testified that Mladic in some cases decided the fate of individual prisoners. "The Serb detention camps and prison system in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in occupied Croat territory...