Bosnia circumvented the Dayton troop-withdrawal clause to retain Islamist fighters

Evidence

The Dayton agreements required all foreign combatants to leave Bosnia, but the Bosnian government helped some fighters stay by giving them Bosnian citizenship and enrolling the Iranian Republican Guards as relief workers. “The Bosnian Government owes these groups, and especially the Iranians, a lot,” warned an American official in early 1996. “The Government has proved incapable of confronting them. In 12 months we will be gone, but the mujahedeen intend to remain.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 792

Categorization

• QUESTION: What became of the mujahedeen who remained in Bosnia? Wondering how this chapter ends — Huntington’s implication is they became a lasting presence.