It runs hiking treks, (snowshoes in winter), mountain biking and rafting events as well as visits to traditional Bosnian villages.

The delay was not for lack of evidence, she said, but investigators had asked for more time to include new data from several Bosnian villages.

They trained long and hard at Brcko, a simulated Bosnian village built by Fort Carson to provide a realistic training environment.

They mass-registered refugees in Serbia - people from other areas - as residents of Bosnian villages and towns.

Many are Muslims from a single Bosnian village, Vrlika, which was sacked by Serbs a year ago.

Many come from Kozmarac, a Bosnian village that was attacked in June.

His mother, Amra, is far away, in the Bosnian village of Breza, where he was born.

He compares the winter siege of the Bosnian villages to little Stalingrads.

The Bosnian Serbs are refusing to give humanitarian convoys access to more than 100,000 people besieged in eastern Bosnian villages.

"This could be a Bosnian village now," Mr. Joy, the base spokesman, said.