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...valley in eastern Bosnia, American Special Forces troops with blackened faces silently slip out of a tree line to point laser beams at Serbian artillery pieces, ammunition stores and fuel dumps. The F/A-18 Hornet and A-6 Intruder aircraft from the carriers roar in, lock on to the laser spots and send their bombs streaking toward the targets...
...Force F-15s, British Tornadoes and French Mirages, launching from bases in Italy, join in with precision bombing of Serbian militiamen. The attacks go on night after night for months. Meanwhile allied agents supply the bedraggled Bosnian Muslim troops with new artillery and tanks, along with advisers to show how the weaponry works. Before long, the land battles among Bosnia's warring peoples become more evenly matched. At that point, perhaps, the Serbs might finally be willing to make peace with the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government...
...considering. If he uses military force in Bosnia, he cannot know whether he will succeed. If he bombs the Bosnian Serbs, their brethren across the Drina River in Serbia proper might heed the call of blood and join them for a war of annihilation against the Muslims. Or the Serbian militiamen who now bestride 70% of Bosnia may simply dig in and refuse either to negotiate or pull back...
...than the Bosnian Serbs reversed course again. At a meeting of their self-designated parliament at Pale, in the mountains east of Sarajevo, they refused overwhelmingly to accept the Vance-Owen plan and Karadzic's signature on it. They ignored his pleas for support, as well as those from Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who had supported and financed them...
...Serbs, particularly their militia leaders, were adamant, arguing that the Vance-Owen plan meant giving up land they had bled for -- something they would never do. "Let them bomb us," smirked Radoslav Brdjanin, a faction leader from Banja Luka. "We will win the war." Serbian commanders had already begun moving their headquarters and supply centers out of towns and into caves and wooded areas. After 17 hours of debate at Pale, the assembly voted to submit the peace proposal to a referendum among Bosnian Serbs on May 15. The move was a ploy that allowed Karadzic to claim Vance-Owen...