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Arm & Train Revisited

Retired U.S. military officers are training and equipping a joint Muslim and Croat army in Bosnia to defend their territory against a possible attack by the Bosnian Serbs. But NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that U.S. officials are concerned that the program may not prepare the Bosnian Federation for the most likely dangers it is expected to face: infighting between the Croat and Muslim sides, and militancy among the hard-line Muslim nationalists.

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