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Bihac was where pro-Yugoslav Muslims fought under Fikret Abdic against the Sarajevo/Izetbegovic regime. Once Krajina fell, these Muslims were ethnically cleansed into Croatia where they were trapped for awhile (Croatia kept them there), and they lived in terrible "chicken coup" conditions.

The Bihac Muslims were moderate and were cleansed by the Croats and other Muslims in August 1995:

The Velika Kladusa Refugees

A particularly interesting, yet relatively unexamined, instance of political violence concerns the refugees created as a result of the actions of a breakaway Muslim faction led by the charismatic businessman Fikret Abdic during the war in former Yugoslavia. Under the leadership of Abdic, a group of about 25,000 refugees fled their town—Velika Kladusa in the Bihac pocket—twice during the war in Bosnia. (See timeline, Appendix 1) The first exodus occurred in late 1994 when the Bosnian government army defeated Abdic’s forces. That exile ended in early 1995 when the refugees formed an army to retake their hometown from the Bosnian 5th Corps, which was deployed by the Muslim-led government. When the Bosnian Army pushed Abdic’s supporters out of Bosnia a second time in August 1995, the exiles were unable to mobilize militarily. The refugees either returned peacefully or resettled to third countries. What accounts for the different outcomes in each case?

http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/migration/pubs/rrwp/5_militarized.html

>>>>>Didn't the Krajina offensive avert a SREBENICA-STYLE SLAUGHTER of even greater proportions by Serbian troops and paramilitaries at the Bihac pocket? Isn't that one of the main reasons Washington greenlighted it in the first place?<<<<

Only if Clinton and US Generals hired by MPRI were clairvoyants and that is not very likely.

Operation Storm (Oluja in Croatian) was planned BEFORE alleged Srebrenica genocide took place in July 1995. MPRI was fully involved, as well as USAF (suppression of Krajina Serb Command and Control)

There are also other factual errors in your speculation. There were no Serbian troops in Bosnia. You refer to troops of Bosnian Serbs (BSA) and that is not same.

Bosnian Muslims in Bihac pocket were the enemies of Sarajevo Muslim government, not the Serbs in Bosnia or Krajina.

The fact is that Slick Willie GREENLIGHTED the biggest ethnic cleansing of 1990s Balkans civil war.

And that's where your reference to SREBRENICA kicks in.

SREBRENICA was drummed up as "genocide" only AFTER OPERATION STORM WAS FINISHED.

Srebrenica was used as a smokescreen to cover Clinton's involvement in this war crime.

Something tells me that you knew it already.

joan, you fail to mention that gd. Abdic was lawfully elected over Izetbegovic before Izzy had his green goons unsucessfuly neutralize him. Leading gd Abdic to flee with any other muslims that were threatened by Izzies green goons.

The reason why it was greenlighted was that the powers that be in the ragion and outside interests wanted the war done by winter of 95. That was a showdown and everyone knew that the Croatians, Bosnian Croatians and Bosnian muslims could not defeat the Krajina Serbs and/or the Bosnian Serbs on their own.

The Serbs of Bosna were too well-versed in muslim and Croatian military doctrine to be defeated. NATO knew the weaknesses of the Bos Serb military and had the mean to exploit them, which they did. But, at the same time, what did not register on anyones horizon at C/C was the adabtibility of the Bos Serb Army to adjust.

Tbough, you are BS'ing everyone on here, evident in your past threads.