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| Intl. troops discover large secret arms stocks in Bosnia |
| 2005-08-17 |
| International peace keeping troops in Bosnia announced Tuesday the discovery of secret stocks of arms in a south Bosnian area amid predictions that the weapons could be remaining of Bosnia's Croats militias who were controlling the area during the last war. The troops said in a statement that the stocks included 50 large boxes containing explosives and bombers of various sizes including the Russian model of Strela. The boxes also contained 236 RPGs and 22 anti-tanks missiles, a dozen of missiles launching systems, 40 blaze bombers and 60 boxes of raw materials used to manufacture explosives, in addition to huge amounts of anti-aircraft missiles and bombs of various kinds and sizes. The statement said the troops' command was amazed by the discovery for the international forces were conducting a wide-scale combing campaign in Bosnia to gather arms during the nine past years that the followed peace in the country. It also said an investigation had already started to identify who was seizing the arms, as the Bosnian law against the ownership of such weapons. The statement raised anxiety that the sized ammunitions might be part of illegal arms trading network in the region. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Apparently, there are several thousand NATO troops, plus about 5,000 US troops working under NATO control, in the area. Risawn, at Incoherent Ramblings, is part of the group. You can get some background information from her blog. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2005-08-17 16:33 |
| #2 Alot of nuts would pay good money for an aged strella that may or may not be fully operational. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-08-17 09:28 |
| #1 "International peace keeping troops" - would those be European troops who's governments don't want to be identified so the owner of the stockpile doesn't retaliate against them? |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2005-08-17 08:58 |