NATO force discovers illegal military training camp in Bosnia

AFP ^ | July 1, 2003

[joan]

MOSTAR, Bosnia-Hercegovina, July 1 (AFP) - Troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia said Tuesday they have discovered an illegal military training camp in the center of the divided Balkan republic and seized a large quantity of military equipment.

The Stabilization Force (SFOR) "discovered and confiscated a large quantity of ammunition, military uniforms, targets with holes, field telephones and other military equipment", the peacekeepers said in a statement.

"This finding indicates that some illegal combat trainings were taking place in the region."

The camp is located near Jablanica and Prozor, roughly 100 kilometers (some 50 miles) west of Sarajevo, inside the Muslim-Croat Federation -- one of the two semi-autonomous entities that makes up Bosnia. The other is Republika Srpska, the majority ethnic Serb entity.

SFOR said the operation took place over several days and was completed on Monday, but gave no further details.

The international force has regularly confiscated weapons in Bosnia, which many civilians continue to carry more than seven years after the end of the 1992-1995 war.

SFOR soldiers discovered at the end of May more than three tons of illegal arms at a car dump in the Muslim-dominated part of the southern town of Mostar.

[joan]

The towns mentioned, Jablanica and Prozor, run up along the left of the square/map.

http://www.kakarigi.net/maps/075w.htm

[Jumper]

Clinton's Albanian Freedom Fighters, aka Islamic Terrorists!

[dalebert]

What a surprise.

[von Schlieffen]

Clinton's Albanian Freedom Fighters, aka Islamic Terrorists!

Wrong country, wrong nationality. Get a map.

[Hoplite]

Oh you're no fun - it's people like you who complain when the Germans get the blame for Pearl Harbor.

NATO was recently looking for Ante Gotovina, a Croat wanted by the ICTY, in the area.

[von Schlieffen]

I know that area is mixed Croat & Bosniac. Since apparently they were hunting down a Croat, they might have found a Catholic terrorist training camp!

[HardStarboard]

My gosh, muslims cheating, obfuscating, sneaking around and, yes, sadly, even lying. What is this world coming to?

[Hoplite]

Any idea who's being trained there and for what?

No.

I have a general antipathy towards Balkan nationalists - of which the Serbs are best represented here on FR.

[Hoplite]

And I trust you're not attempting to pass off ethnic bigotry as anything other than what it is - stupidity, wherein you will find the answer to your ending question.

Why don't you tell me which posters were or are espousing Croat, Bosnian Muslim, or Albanian nationalism around here? What Croats there were (2 by my count) are all gone, the Bosnian Muslims were never here, and what Albanians ever showed up never lasted longer than a week, so I'm not really sure it's you who needs to be spared of anyting, is it?