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...January 19. But what has the U.S. most worried were allegations that Bosnia's Muslim government had links to the Iranians. "No one can escape the obvious, that terrorist training activity was going on in this building and it has direct association with people in the government," U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith said Friday after an inspection of the chalet. TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that there may be a political motivation behind the NATO raid. "As the Holbrooke meeting approaches, NATO officials may have had wanted to arrest bad guys on the Muslim side to balance the Serb officers extradited...
...extraordinary, in fact, that in briefing Clinton in Washington last week, Admiral Leighton Smith, NATO's Bosnia commander, hinted at "moving people out of there" before the mission's scheduled wrap-up in December. But while Smith can claim success for the military side, the civilian operation is another story. The civilian accords are plagued by a lack of cash and endless Balkan bickering. This is disturbing because the accords cover elections, refugee resettlement and reconstruction--all of which are crucial to giving Bosnia a stable peace. "The civilian part of Dayton is the test of our success or failure...
...Violence is growing in Sarajevo with both Serbs and Muslims reporting attacks. Four Muslim truck drivers were allegedly beaten by armed Serbs, according to hospital officials. SRNA, the Bosnian Serb news agency, claimed a Serb had been beaten by Muslims in the Bosnian Muslim section of Sarajevo. While Admiral Leighton Smith has played down the seriousness of the growing disarray, the situation clearly is deteriorating fast...
TUZLA: Among the other complex issues confronting Christopher in Bosnia will be what to do about thousands of missing Muslims. Though U.N. investigators began digging today at the site of a mass grave near the northern Bosnian town of Jajce, even Admiral Leighton Smith, commander of NATO operations in Bosnia, estimates that there may be as many as 300 such graves scattered across the war zone. Also, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that Srebenican women demonstrated again in Tuzla on Friday. "It was quite violent," says Stiglmayer. "They threw rocks and broke windows of a government building." Dozens...
...talk peace. The general met with a Bosnian Serb, a Bosnian Croat and a Bosnian army leader, of whom he said, "All of them focused on peace and pledged their determination to succeed with respect to the peace accord." Bosnian Serbs in Sarajevo, meanwhile, were rebuffed by Admiral Leighton Smith, overall commander of the nato-led force, when they sought to delay the reunification of the Bosnian capital; the peace treaty demands that areas controlled by Bosnian Serbs be turned over to the Bosnian government...