Posted on 06/10/2005 10:34:12 AM PDT by Racehorse
He once declared that he was God, and ordered his Serb artillery to “scorch the brains” of Bosnian Muslims in Sarajevo.
General Ratko Mladic kept a goat he called Madeleine Albright, and until a few years ago, openly dined at fancy Belgrade restaurants or watched soccer matches.
Now, Serbian authorities say the noose is tightening around the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander, a top UN war crimes fugitive, who’s been eluding capture for nearly a decade on charges he helped mastermind Europe’s worst massacre of civilians since the Second World War.
Although Serbian police today denied reports that Mladic’s exact location has been located, they said that the authorities were intensively working to find him and extradite him to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
Serbia’s media claimed that Mladic has already been located “in a large town” outside Belgrade and that his arrest was imminent.
“The government will no longer hesitate to arrest and extradite” Mladic to the UN tribunal, the prominent Belgrade Danas daily said. “The only dilemma is how to conduct the operation so there will be no casualties and that Mladic stays alive.”
Mladic’s security once said the general had made a death pact with one of his bodyguards to shoot him in the event he is ever cornered by authorities.
Mladic disappeared from public view here when Serbia’s conservative Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica – lured by promises that Serbia will one day become an European Union member, but only if Mladic is arrested – earlier this year shifted his opposition toward The Hague tribunal, and said: ”All those who committed war crimes must face justice.”
US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said during a visit to Belgrade that Mladic’s days as a war crimes fugitive may be numbered.
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Kept a goat named "Madeleine Albright." Hmmmmmmm. Well, even the devil is said to have a sense of humor.
How could you tell which was the goat and which was the cleaning lady?
More like Halfbright.
Bump
That's an insult to goats. He needed a pig...
Got to love him.
Hope not. Looks like Serbia has its own "turncoat" media same as the west.
OK, I laughed.
Right...intellectually and sex appeal, goats are head and shoulders above maddie.
Nice quotes--did he say this into the microphone or did this journalist hope that is what he said.
The Serbian Christians did not commit war crimes against the stinking muslim drug runners.
No, he already has a pig; he named it Helen Thomas....
I believe that this so-called "massacre" has never been proven. It was only alleged in order to get Clinton to authorize U.S. forces to attack the Serbs.
Every prosecutor's dream is to prosecute a guy named "Ratko."
Unfortunately, Ratko has got to go. They will leave Radovan alone if Ratko is taken.
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