Bosnia 'carve-up planned over dinner,' © BBC News, 3/19/1998.
Paddy Ashdown has told the Bosnia War Crimes Tribunal that Croatian President Franjo Tudjman allegedly showed how he intended to "carve up" the war-torn area between Croatia and Serbia. Mr Ashdown said: "I asked him what about the Muslim areas. He said: 'There will be no Muslim areas except as a small part of a Croatian state.'
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Croatia Risks Cutting Its Own Throat; Balkans: Military interference in Bosnia opens door to sanctions and could encourage Serbian aggression, By Carol J. Williams, © Los Angeles Times, 1/15/1994.
An ethnic carve-up of Bosnia-Herzegovina might fulfill nationalist dreams of a Greater Croatia, but opposition leaders, human rights advocates and even some allies of President Franjo Tudjman are beginning to see the expansion drive as the greatest peril confronting the country.
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Croat-Muslim Pact May Be Unraveling, By Carol J. Williams, © Los Angeles Times, 6/20/1994.
It was a shotgun wedding ordered by Washington that ended the war between Muslims and Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and three months into the marriage there are growing signs that it may not last.
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See also: Bosnia 'shotgun marriage' runs on to the rocks, By Julius Strauss, © Daily (Electronic) Telegraph, 9/12/1996.
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U.N. Aides Doubt That Bosnia Wants Negotiated Peace, By Reuters News Service, © Los Angeles Times, 1/2/1993.
U.N. intelligence experts have cast doubt on the Bosnian government's interest in negotiating a settlement to the country's civil war, making progress in this weekend's Geneva peace talks appear unlikely.
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Mystery of the market massacre, © The Times, 3/28/2000
A Western diplomat who was in Sarajevo at the time told me in 1999 that he was convinced the bombing was perpetrated by the Muslim-led Government. The Muslims were sure that the Serbs would be blamed and hoped that outrage at the carnage would lead to airstrikes against their foes and increase pressure for a lifting of the arms embargo that was in place against all the warring sides.
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/28/timfeafea01005.html

Islamic Nations to Press for Military Aid to Bosnia, By Kim Murphy, 
© Los Angeles Times, 12/1/1992.
The Islamic world, split by lingering wounds from the Gulf War and mounting tension in the Persian Gulf, is attempting to unite behind a major new push for military aid to the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina in what many officials see as a new testing ground for Islam and the West.
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Bosnian Muslims 'armed by secret flights', By Robert Fox, © Daily (Electronic) Telegraph, 2/28/1995.
Persistent reports from Tuzla in northern Bosnia suggest that Bosnian government forces there have recently been supplied with weapons in a covert operation by a friendly Western power. It was after these flights were reported, that the Hercules night flights to the Muslim-held airfield first came to the attention of UN officers. The most persistent theory is that the Americans have begun covert shipments of hand-held anti-tank rockets, and other specialist weapons such as the anti-aircraft Stinger missile, as an alternative to lifting the arms embargo on the Muslim government forces in Bosnia.
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Bosnia Seen as Ill Prepared for End of Arms Embargo, By Tracy Wilkinson, © Los Angeles Times, 8/10/1995.
From the high-tech laser warning systems on their tanks to the mighty MIG-21 bombers in their air force, the Croatians have been masters at flouting an international arms embargo imposed against the republics of the former Yugoslav federation.
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End of U.S. Arms Embargo Adds to Bosnia Conflict, By Carol J. Williams, © Los Angeles Times, 11/15/1994.
In the three short days since the United States broke ranks with European allies and gave up enforcing a U.N. arms embargo against Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Balkan conflict has dramatically escalated and the peace process has all but collapsed. 
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A New Enemy Is Born, and He Lives Next Door; Ethnic strife: Fighting divides Croats and Muslims in Travnik, yet another microcosm of a horrific war, By Kim Murphy, © Los Angeles Times, 6/12/1993.
It was about two months ago, residents figure, that decades of comfortable neighborliness, Muslim living next to Croat, started to unravel in Travnik, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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U.N. in Bosnia: From Peacekeepers to Pawns, By Tracy Wilkinson, 
© Los Angeles Times, 6/22/1995.
As Bosnian Serbs three days ago were releasing U.N. peacekeepers they had taken hostage, an additional 550 Canadians were being trapped in their camp north of here – but this time by the other side, the Bosnian army.
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Bosnia: Iran's European Springboard?, By Yossef Bodansky & Vaughn S. Forrest, Task force on terrorism & unconventional warfare, House Republican Research Committee, 9/1/1992.
Tehran and its allies are using the violence in Bosnia- Hercegovina as a springboard for the launching of a jihad in Europe. Consequently, the character of the armed struggle waged by the Muslims of Bosnia-Hercegovina – against the Serbs and Croats, as well as against their own brothers – has been determined as much by the "needs" of the Muslim world as by the peculiarities of the local situation.
http://www.suc.org/politics/papers/civil_war/iran_springboard.html

Did U.S. Concern for Bosnia Justify Iran Arms Pipeline? © Los Angeles Times, Opinion, 4/7/1996.
For four long years the war in Bosnia defied Big Power fiddling, arm-twisting and diplomatic initiatives, finally collapsing last fall because the combatants simply ran out of gas. Had the Americans and Europeans been able to foresee that outcome, some considerable missteps might not have been made, including the Clinton administration's decision to wink at Iranian arms shipments to the Muslim-led Bosnian government despite a U.N. arms embargo.
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Bosnians hit Serbs under cover of air strikes, By Scott Peterson, 
© Daily (Electronic) Telegraph, 9/14/1995.
Bosnian government forces backed by the Croatia army have made significant gains against Bosnian Serbs in western and central Bosnia. The three-pronged offensive, begun in the past two days and confirmed by United Nations officials yesterday, is taking advantage of the Nato air strikes against Bosnian Serb positions. But if Nato and the UN are seen as taking sides in the Balkan conflict their commanders will find it increasingly difficult to continue their attacks, which are supposed to be aimed only at forcing the Bosnian Serbs to withdraw heavy weapons from around Sarajevo, and effectively lift the 3.5-year siege of the capital.
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Karadzic asks UN and major powers to halt Muslims, © Daily (Electronic) Telegraph, 3/28/1995
The Bosnian Serb leader, Dr Radovan Karadzic, called on the United Nations and America, Britain, France and Russia to stop an offensive by Bosnian government forces, the Bosnian Serb news agency, SRNA, said yesterday. "We ask you . . . to use your influence to stop the Muslim offensive and ensure the retreat of Muslim forces to the demarcation lines" fixed by the Dec 24 ceasefire, he said in a letter to Mr Boutros Boutros Ghali, the UN Secretary-General. The letter was also sent to Presidents Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin and FranÙois Mitterrand, and to Mr John Major. "A large-scale war could break out," he said. "In that case Serbs will be forced to defend themselves by any means to ensure their country is recognised.
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