Troops to leave Bosnia in 2004

US peacekeeping troops in Bosnia might be recalled next year, said a US military commander for Europe at a Pentagon news conference.

Troops entered Bosnia almost eight years ago.

If the present situation continues in Bosnia "during 2004, we could have a different footprint there than we currently have", said Marine Gen. James L. Jones, who is also Nato's military chief, writes the Washington Post.

Eight years later

During the Clinton administration in 1995 ab...