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"It can be confidently stated that we have not discovered a military training camp," Dale MacEachern, spokesman for the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR), told journalists.
The seized military material indicates "the possibility of low-level training," he said adding that it also "could have been something as simple as a couple of kids shooting up targets."
SFOR said Tuesday that they had discovered and confiscated a large quantity of ammunition, military uniforms, targets with holes, field telephones and other military equipment.
"One of the reasons why we know that we have not stumbled upon any kind of training camp is that there was no infrastructure, no buildings, no capacities to train quantities of people," MacEachern said.
The military material was found in a location near Jablanica and Prozor, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Sarajevo, inside the Muslim-Croat Federation, which along with the Serbs' Republika Srpska makes up Bosnia since the 1992-95 war.
The peacekeepers have regularly confiscated weapons in Bosnia, which many civilians continue to carry more than seven years after the end of the 1992-1995 war.
SFOR soldiers discovered at the end of May more than three tons of illegal arms at a car dump in the Muslim-dominated part of the southern town of Mostar.
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