Posted on 07/21/2008 3:38:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men, has been arrested, a statement from the office of Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Monday.
"Karadzic was located and arrested," the statement said. He was detained and taken to see judges of the war crimes court.
Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnia war, was indicted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague in July 1995 for authorizing the shooting of civilians during the 43-month siege of Sarajevo.
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Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic (R) and his general Ratko Mladic are seen on Mountain Vlasic in this April 1995 file photo. Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men, has been arrested, a statement from the office of Serbian President Boris Tadic said on July 21, 2008. REUTERS/Ranko Cukovic/Files
Hey, Mladic is wearing Weasly Clark’s hat.
http://end-time-signs.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-do-illuminati-use-portugal-related.html
lol .. Thanks!
Good.
Meanwhile the Muslim encraoch into the Balkans continues helped along by Euroweenies and the ever PC and soft US
this is one case the Bear should have his day
This is good news. I wonder what all transpired to finally make this happen/who tipped off the where abouts, etc.
Is this a precusor to bring “W” to trial for “killing” muslims?
It does sort of blow all to hell the media stories (and even the Gere movie tale) of "Karadzic surrounded & protected by a ruthless mafia in the hills of Bosnia", now doesn't it? Karadzic was actually arrested on a bus in downtown Belgrade, where no one-- including his landlord-- even knew who he was. Sort of blows that previous media image, now doesn't it?
If the Hague was fair & competent, I'd say Karadzic's arrest was "good news". But based on previous trials, the Hague has proven to be nothing more than a kangaroo court -- political theater provided for the masses, much like the Colosseum shows once were. Pass the popcorn, because this should be interesting. I doubt that Karadzic is going down without a fight.
He was a petty tyrant but also as cruel as Hitler. Good they nailed him.
AS has been clearly stated by another Serb:
“...However, take heart, there is no point in arguing with destiny. The trial of this defender of Serbs promises to bring to light the role of al Qaeda in Bosnia, the Muslim government’s willing sacrifice of its youth for fanatical Islam, the U.S. support for the same international terrorists it blames for the 9-11 attacks, and the true root of the recent Bosnian conflict in the absolutely real genocide perpetrated against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies during World War Two. The holocaust visited upon them by their Croat and Muslim neighbours will finally come to light and the entire world will have the chance to weigh on the scales of justice the over 700,000 victims of the Croatian and Muslim butchers against the alleged 7,000 Muslim fighting-age males who fell with Srebrenica. Soon, the public will be seeing the photos of the thousands of Serbian civilians slaughtered by Muslim death squads striking out from within that so-called “safe area” that was nothing more than a staging ground for mass murder against the Serbs.
After this arrest it will become increasingly difficult for the Muslims and Croats to keep playing their false role as innocent lambs.
Radovan Karadzic never fled justice, he merely refused to submit to the biased court of victor’s injustice disguised in a Kangaroo suit at the Hague.
I had the pleasure of being present in person when President Karadzic very convincingly explained the Bosnian Serb position of self-defence against insurgent illegal secessionists and their aggressive foreign weapons suppliers. I look forward to seeing him tell the entire world what the Western media has tried to suppress and misrepresent ever since the fall of Srebrenica. I also look forward to seeing the U.S. government face the fact that it not only gave the Muslims the carte blanche that started the Bosnian war, but then also invited the Iranians to arm its local pawns in a twisted Clintonian repeat of Iran-Contra that proves that the difference between America’s Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum political parties is nothing more than the minor variations in the way that they pursued their common criminal foreign policy in the Balkans.
Radovan Karadzic will cut through the lies about Bosnia at the Hague and show the world why the Serbian national anthem calls on the “God of Justice” to protect the Serbs. The real guilty parties will then become obvious to all fair-minded people, no matter what undeserved demonization and tortures the U.S.-EU lynch mob inflicts on Karadzic and, by extension, the entire Serbian nation....”
I think that General Clark trusted the wrong people; Mladic must have been laughing so hard behind the scenes during the negotiation process. Between Karadzic and Mladic, I always thought that Mladic was the more egotistical, cunning, and ruthless of the two. You can see it in his eyes and demeanor in video footage.
The actual arrest seemed too easy, almost orchestrated. I find it hard to believe that the Serbian intel/military services just never knew where he was the last 10+ years...haven’t there been numerous public sightings of both he and Mladic since 1999? I think they probably knew where he was many of those 10+ years, along with other foreign intel services. Plenty has been written about the search and high-risk tracking of the PIFWCs, particularly Mladic and Karadzic. But so much of the handling of these operations became dependent on politics and I think that both he and Mladic were just deemed too hot to handle/too high risk to go after seriously until now (i.e. reference past US/NATO efforts for arresting PIFWCs). There was probably so much more going on in the background than what any of the current news articles are saying, but it seems that the climate over there may be changing for the better.
On that we agree.
I find it hard to believe that the Serbian intel/military services just never knew where he was the last 10+ years...haven’t there been numerous public sightings of both he and Mladic since 1999?
Mladic, yes, within the first few years of the NATO Bombing when average Serbs were too pissed at being bombed for 78 straight days to want to see him caught. But not, Karadzic, at least not obviously.
Apparently, you didn't see the recent Richard Gere film, selling the story that "Karadzic was being protected by a ruthless mafia in Bosnia and anyone who got near would be killed". That's the same story that has been running in the MSM for years.
But so much of the handling of these operations became dependent on politics and I think that both he and Mladic were just deemed too hot to handle/too high risk to go after seriously until now.
Right again. After the elections in Serbia a few months ago, there was power vacuum for a little while, when various parties were jockeying for alliances and power. So the US ambassador stepped in and started making deals with "how we would like to see things to turn out in Serbia". We rehabilitated Milosevic's Socialists to back our favorite "democrat" (really a socialist, too), Boris Tadic. That deal was made only a few weeks ago. It was at that point when I believe we decided to let Serbia know where Karadzic was -- to make the "nationalist" (which is what most Freepers would be considered if we lived over there) politicians who came before look like they were "hiding Karadzic" or "weren't really looking", in order to discredit them.
We have been playing a very ugly game in the Balkans. And every country who has tried this in the past has sooner or later had their butt kicked -- Austro-Hungary, Nazi Germany -- the most powerful countries of their time, too. America is my country, not Serbia. But the game that we have been playing there is wrong and dangerous. I fear that if we didn't get that message on 9/11, we never will.
Ego maniac General Clark, Weight Challenged Former (thank God!) Secretary of State Mad el aine Albright and Klinton should all be charged for war crimes against the Serbs.
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