US Troops End Nine Years in Bosnia Peace Force

EAGLE BASE, Bosnia (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday ended a 9-year peacekeeping role in Bosnia but kept on a small contingent to hunt down top war crimes suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.



"Those are the two guys we want to get," said Brigadier General Timothy Wright, commander of the outgoing 700-strong peace contingent, at a ceremony to end Task Force Eagle.


Bosnian Serb fugitives Karadzic and Mladic will be the "primary focus" of some 150 soldiers who will stay on in Eagle Base in northern Bosnia, he said.


About 100 more will remain at a new NATO (news - web sites) headquarters in Sarajevo under Brigadier General Steven Schook, commander of the outgoing Stabilization Force (SFOR).

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=721&e=6&u=/nm/20041124/ts_nm/bosnia_usa_troops_dc

How long before they are in Iraq or Iran?? :eyes:

Where's Osama? Oh that's right, making movies to keep B*sh in office.

That's what I thought when I read the title. I thought we had many more there, but it won't be long, this spring probally.