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"At the same time Slobo & the Serb nationalists were trying to sell their Balkans depredations as some kind of war against radical Islamists."

Didn't the Croats basically do the same thing?

Also, Yugoslav-made weaponry was used by the El Salvadorian FMLN during the civil war back in the 80's and early 90's, so Africa and the Arab world certainly weren't their only clients.

"At the same time Slobo & the Serb nationalists were trying to sell their Balkans depredations as some kind of war against radical Islamists."

Didn't the Croats basically do the same thing?

Actually, the heaviest fighting the Croats did was against the Serbs. Initially, the Croats & Bosniaks were allied against the Serbs. Excerpt from a Balkans Times story of today:

Croatia's Mesic Calls on Serb Refugees to Return ATHENS, Greece -- Launching a three-day visit to Greece on Tuesday (18 November), Croatian President Stipe Mesic called on all Serb refugees to return home. During a news conference with his Greek counterpart, Costis Stephanopoulos, Mesic said that Croatia is a safe country governed by the rule of law, and that the government is committed to returning to the refugees the property they once owned. . . In other news, several thousand people gathered in Vukovar, Croatia to mark the 12th anniversary of the town's fall to Serb forces. An estimated 1,600 people were killed during the three-month siege. (AFP, ANA, MPA, Makfax - 18/11/03)