"A ground-breaking DNA program in Bosnia has identified more than 1,320 victims [of massacres found in mass graves] in the past year or so. The software was successfully used in New York after the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center."

"An important part of living on this NATO base, which is headquarters to the American component of the international peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, is learning to appreciate the country's mix of religions," the Washington Times reports from Eagle Base in Tuzla. "At the end of Ramadan in November, Brig. Gen. John T. von Trott, the top officer at Eagle Base, invited Mohammed Lugavic, an imam from the Tuzla City Mosque, to address the troops and give them a 'better understanding of Ramadan and other holidays.' Gen. von Trott said he was impressed by the imam, who has organized a multifaith organization in Tuzla called 'the bridge' to improve communication among the city's Muslims, Roman Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs."

"We're always in a hurry to do everything; they enjoy sitting down and talking...about everything," Sgt. Shane Pulig says in describing the difference he finds between Americans and Bosnians. "Their mealtimes are an event, not something they rush through in order to get finished. ... Most of them love us being here, especially the kids."

"When history comes to judge the siege of Sarajevo, which went on longer than the siege of Stalingrad, they'll judge us very hard indeed for simply standing by and doing nothing. We have a moral responsibility here and I feel I would like to help," the high representative tells reporter Nick Hawton.