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...lands in the northwest held by the Bosnian government. Then Yugoslav-made jets from a Serb airbase in Croatia joined in the attack. NATO fighter-bombers roared across the Adriatic from Italy to bomb the base, punching a few craters into the concrete runways, but carefully avoiding Serbian planes or soldiers. Two days later, when the Serbs failed to get the message, NATO planes hit two of their antiaircraft installations in Bosnia with missiles...
...best, complications at worst. The UN-imposed arms embargo on the former Yugoslavia has aided the Serbs, who possessed large stockpiles of weapons before the war. The Bosnia's still suffer from shortages of heavy weapons. Moreover, the UN troops in Bosnia have been mere pawns in the Serbian advance, able to provide relief only with Serb permission and used as hostages against any more significant help for the Muslims. These polices have largely been the result of a British and French resistance to any concerted action against the Serbs...
While the Clinton administration openly sympathizes with the Bosnian Muslims, it has repeatedly shield away from taking prudent and honorable steps to support them against Serbian rebels. Rather than assuming its leadership role in NATO, the administration has justified its own cowardice by the intransigence of its European allies...
...protection in Bosnia's northwest corner. "After they arrived," a U.N. spokesman reported, "two loud explosions were heard." Military monitors went to inspect and found fragments from cluster bombs and, in the U.N.'s view, for the first time in the war, napalm. Fighting worsened the next day as Serbian jets from Udbina bombed and strafed the center of the nearby town of Cazin...
...gains made by the Bosnian army in recent weeks, Bosnian Serbs pressed into the northwestern enclave of Bihac. The Serbs launched assaults from the north, east and west, prompting Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic to appeal to the United Nations and NATO for help. Key to the assault were Serbian jets from Croatia that bombed Bihac itself and another town, Cazin...