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...ditched their bloody shirts in the Bois de Boulogne, were beset by a series of mishaps after parting company with Boyerahmadi. Traveling on false Turkish passports and speaking little French, the pair hopped a train to Lyons but got off at the wrong station and missed a connection to Geneva, where their contacts were waiting to sneak them back to Tehran. The morning after the murder, as police reconstructed their flight, they arrived at the Swiss border by taxi. An official suspected that their visas were forged and refused to admit them. Five days later, they arrived in Annecy, where...
Meanwhile, the French police had finally found Bakhtiar's body and put out international arrest warrants. Boyerahmadi had disappeared without a trace. Eventually Azadi and Vakili made their way to Geneva, where Azadi met his contact and was whisked out of the country. Vakili, however, was picked up by Swiss police on Aug. 21, while wandering lost and abandoned along the banks of Lake Leman. He was extradited to France the next month...
...senior officials claim that even then, while trying to keep Bosnia out of the news, they were beginning to realize they could not do so much longer. Geneva peace negotiations were going nowhere; both Serbs and Muslims were thought to be gearing up new offensives; France and Britain were grumbling about pulling out of a U.N. peacekeeping force that only seemed to be exposing their troops to danger. The Europeans, says a senior official at the State Department, "were calling, even pleading, for U.S. leadership...
That prodded Christopher into asking his aides to review the options again. By the time they arrived home from the summit, they had drafted a plan to invigorate the Geneva talks backed by a threat of military action against the Serbs. But the emphasis was on diplomacy -- until the mortar shell struck the market. Then, says one official, "the use of force became a first priority...
...time blaming them. "They're not interested in killing our soldiers," said Vice President Ejup Ganic. "They're only interested in killing our people." President Alija Izetbegovic ordered his representatives to break off peace talks with the Serbs, although he said that negotiations scheduled for this week in Geneva should move forward...