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Threatened with retaliatory airstrikes if they attacked Dutch peacekeepers outside the Bosnian "safe area" of Srebrenica,Bosnian Serb forceshalted their advance toward Dutch lines on the southern edge of town. Fighting between Serb and government forces intensified elsewhere around the city, as Serb forces reportedly set fire to homes in outlying areas. Despite a U.N. demand that they be released, the Serbian army continued to hold 30 Dutch soldiers hostage as insurance againstNATO bombings...
...convince the Serbs to yield enough territory, NATO will have to issue further ultimatums to the beseigers of Srebrenica, Tuzla and other cities. Once the seiges have been lifted, the Bosnian enclaves should be linked in order to create a contiguous state...
...hostages, a la Iran or Somalia. The air strikes could be ineffective: finding and destroying well-hidden artillery pieces, especially mortars that can be moved quickly, is no cinch. The Serbs could step up their offensives far from Sarajevo, intensifying the killing in other vulnerable towns like Srebrenica and Tuzla. The Serbs could take prisoner or even kill civilian aid workers who distribute food and other humanitarian assistance. Result: whipsawing pressures on Clinton either to cut and run, wrecking U.S. credibility for good, or to apply more force drip by drip, escalating into a Vietnam-style quagmire...
...easy for combatants to stop, steal or hold hostage the shipments, thrusting the troops protecting them into the middle of the war. Air strikes -- something the U.S. and its allies have resisted -- may now be necessary to relieve Canadian troops in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, a U.N.-declared "safe" enclave surrounded by Serbs. In Mogadishu 12,000 U.N. soldiers are sitting inside walled compounds rather than risk casualties by patrolling the streets. "They are doing nothing but eating and sleeping," says a U.N. military adviser. "Ridiculous...
...Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where peoples that have lived together for centuries are now at each other's throats, there are today 300 Canadian soldiers sheltering the innocent. Soldiers from a country that might have been . Yugoslavia -- serving as protectors in a country that is Yugoslavia...