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  • US Behind Sacking Of Top Bosnian Croats (during Bosnian war)

    09/16/2006 11:49:08 AM PDT · by joan · 5 replies · 290+ views
    IWPR ^ | September 15, 2006 | Caroline Tosh
    Former American ambassador testifies on the United States’ role in reining in Croat paramilitaries in war-torn Bosnia. By Caroline Tosh in The Hague (TU No 468, 15-Sep-06) A former United States ambassador to Croatia revealed this week that it was American pressure that led to the removal of two senior Bosnian Croats during the 1992-94 Muslim-Croat conflict that was part of the wider Bosnian war. Speaking at the war crimes trial of six Bosnian Croat officials, former ambassador Peter Galbraith testified that his government pressured the authorities in Croatia to secure the dismissal of Slobodan Praljak, the military commander of...
  • SAS in Bosnia bank seizure

    06/17/2002 9:04:56 AM PDT · by joan · 3 replies · 274+ views
    BBC ^ | June 17, 2002
    An SAS team helped end a mafia money-laundering racket by taking part in a raid on a Bosnian bank, it has emerged. Explosives experts from the elite British regiment managed to blow open three safes without destroying 3.5 million marks stored inside and also seized other vital evidence. Last year's mission in the southern Bosnian town Mostar was reportedly authorised by British commanders. It was believed that the money-laundering operation was funding a plot to set up a breakaway Bosnian Croat state. Deputy commander of the Nato-led Stabilisation Force (S-For), Major General Richard Dannatt, of the Green Howards Regiment gave...