$ OR ZAGREB, Jan 19 (Hina) - There were no more organised foreign military troops which would pose a threat to the implementation of the Dayton agreement and IFOR troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina, IFOR spokesman in Zagreb, Captain Leonard
Capella told a press conference today. The deadline for their withdrawal had expired today, Capella said.
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ZAGREB, Jan 19 (Hina) - There were no more organised foreign
military troops which would pose a threat to the implementation of
the Dayton agreement and IFOR troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina, IFOR
spokesman in Zagreb, Captain Leonard Capella told a press
conference today. The deadline for their withdrawal had expired
today, Capella said. #L#
The exception was a smaller group of Mujahaddin fighters, 105
of them, who had been relocated from central Bosnia to the western
Bosnian town of Bihac, where they were waiting to enter Croatia and
leave for third countries. IFOR did not consider them 'an organised
military unit because they were unarmed'.
The most exact estimation of the number of Mujahaddin fighters
in Bosnia-Herzegovina was the one according to which Mujahaddin
troops had 800 members.
Differences between the estimated number of Mujahaddin
fighters and the number of those who had already left or were
waiting to leave Bosnia-Herzegovina could be explained, Capella
said, adding that some Bosnian citizens or other persons who in
some way had gained Bosnian citizenship, had been fighting in
Mujahaddin units. Under the Dayton agreement, those persons were
not considered members of foreign military units.
Capella confirmed yesterday's information by Croatian
authorities according to which 29 Mujahaddin fighters had left
Bosnia-Herzegovina via Croatia so far.
(hina) rm jn
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