Bosnia Muslims Reportedly Made Chemical Arms

Bosnian Muslims produced chemical weapons during the 3 1/2-year Bosnian war but stopped making them early this year after the fighting ended, Jane’s Intelligence Review reports.

In the January issue of the Review, a Bosnian Muslim journalist writing under the pseudonym Enis Dzanic said Muslims produced 120-millimeter chlorine-filled mortar rounds in the city of Tuzla, now headquarters for U.S. peacekeeping troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Robert Hall, editor of Jane’s Intelligence Review, said it is not clear whether the Bosnian Muslims used any of the chlorine rounds during the war.

But according to Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, a London-based, subscription-only publication that circulates to senior government officials in 160 countries, Bosnian Muslims fired chlorine-filled 120-millimeter shells against Bosnian Serbs in August 1993.