Karadzic is Balkans' Bin Laden, says Holbrooke

B92 ^ | April 14, 2008 | staff

[Diocletian]

SARAJEVO -- Richard Holbrooke maintains that he "never made a deal with Hague fugitive Radovan Karadžić".

The American diplomat, who helped create the Dayton peace deal that ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, yesterday in Sarajevo denied allegations that he reached an agreement with the former Bosnian Serb president.

The long-standing claim, recently repeated by the Hague Prosecution's former spokeswoman Florence Hartmann, says that Karadžić received guaranties he would never be arrested if he withdrew from Bosnia's political life.

“I did not make any kind of deal with Karadžić, he is a war criminal. He is the Osama Bin Laden of Europe,” Holbrooke said to a Bosnia-Herzegovina television station.

He said that "Karadžić made up the story and leaked it to the media".

Holbrooke added that he is very disappointed by the fact that Karadžić and Ratko Mladić have not been arrested yet, adding that their arrests must be a priority and that “nothing should continue until the two of them are brought to face justice,” Beta news agency said.

The former U.S. diplomat aslo said that the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina have the chance to create a modern country “with the capital of Sarajevo, and two existing entities.”

“The central institutions need to be strengthened in Sarajevo, and there must be work put in to reconciliation,” Holbrooke said, adding that the Bosnia-Herzegovina education system, the division of schools by ethnicity, "is the most dangerous thing for Bosnia".

“In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the children are learning three different, fake histories and that is wrong,” he said.

Holbrooke is in Bosnia-Herzegovina with a team of reporters and cameramen from CNN, who are making a documentary film on the Srebrenica war crimes.

[Diocletian]

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[FormerLib]

Sounds like you need to take this up with Richard Holbrooke.

[montyspython]

“I did not make any kind of deal with Karadžić, he is a war criminal. He is the Osama Bin Laden of Europe,”

Equating Karadzic with Bin Laden is about as irresponsible as it gets. Holbrooke stretching the truth again, so what else is new...

[pgkdan]

Holbrooke’s an a-hole. He wouldn’t know a terrorist of he saw one in a suicide belt! His neice was the spokesperson for the taliban during the Clinton years and he thought that was just peachy keen.

[Bokababe]

"Karadzic is Balkans' Bin Laden, says Holbrooke"

LOLOL!

"Holbrooke is the Bin Laden of the Balkans", says everyone else!

The second statement is far less stupid than the first one!

[Bokababe]

"Holbrooke’s an a-hole. He wouldn’t know a terrorist of he saw one in a suicide belt! "

Actually Holbrooke knows very well what "a terrorist" looks like. Just look at his friends:

Haris Silajdzic, on whose side four of the 9/11 hijackers fought.This photo was taken 4/11/08.

Then there were Holbrooke's buddies in the KLA:

And Kraniqi, who used US gun laws to weaponize the KLA guerrillas and poured millions into US political campaign coffers to buy "hunting licesnes" to kill Serbs & recruit Holbroke's buddies to do the job that the KLA couldn't do.

Holbrooke sees "terrorist" every time he looks in the mirror!

[getoffmylawn]

We should make tons of Xerox copies of this post and glue them to every street light in Holbrooke’s neighborhood so his neighbors know what kind of animal is living in their midst.

[Bokababe]

"We should make tons of Xerox copies of this post and glue them to every street light in Holbrooke’s neighborhood so his neighbors know what kind of animal is living in their midst."

My guess is that they already know about him because they are just like him -- but if we did, they might just blame him for "the litter" and at least he'd get blamed for something.