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.
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....”
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.