Posted on 08/04/2008 7:42:30 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Radovan Karadzic was living under US protection until the CIA caught him breaking an agreement to stay out of politics, a Serbian newspaper has claimed.
Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who was last week indicted for genocide and war crimes, enjoyed the protection from the Dayton peace accord in 1995 until 2000, according to a "well-informed US intelligence source".
The Belgrade daily Blic claims that Karadzic was secretly granted immunity in return for promising to keep a low profile, but that in 2000 "the CIA intercepted a telephone conversation that clearly proved he personally chaired a meeting of his old political party," the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS).
Kardzic last week told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague that the lead US negotiator at Dayton, Richard Holbrooke, had promised that he would avoid trial if he withdrew from public life.
Mr Holbrooke has denied that any such deal existed.
Blic's source said: "In 2000 there was a SDS meeting in Bijeljina, chaired personally by Karadzic. He was providing instructions to members and the leadership who should be replaced and who should be appointed to which position.
"Karadzic was personally engaged in all activities of the SDS. In America they went crazy realising Karadzic was making a fool of them. The Americans and CIA then withdrew the informal protection enjoyed by Karadzic."
However Mohammed Sacirbey, a former Bosnian foreign minister and leading figure in opposition to Karadzic in the early 1990s, has also confirmed the existence of such a deal.
He told the Dnevni newspaper that he was told about it from Robert Frowick, the US diplomat and then-head of mission. at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, in the summer of 1996.
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We will not be able to determine the damage done by these hillbillys for decades.
Also the moon landing was faked.
Richard Holbrooke, Radovan Karadzic, and Strobe Talbot?
I’d say that Karadzic is probably the nicest of the three.
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