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ZAGREB (AFP) - The Croatian government Thursday sought an opinion from the constitutional court on whether a UN war crimes tribunal indictment of the country's ex-army chief was in line with the country's constitution. Zagreb last month refused immediate extradition of retired general Janko Bobetko, 83 and in ailing health, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), saying certain parts of the indictment were unacceptable. Bobetko is accused of individual and command responsibility for the killing of 100 ethnic Serbs during a 1993 Croatian army operation in central Croatia against Serb rebels. The government said in...

By SNJEZANA VUKIC, Associated Press Writer ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Croatia rejected the U.N. war crimes court's indictment against its wartime army chief of staff on Friday, arguing that the court's order for the arrest was technically flawed. The court in The Hague, Netherlands, improperly issued the indictment against Gen. Janko Bobetko, an 83-year-old retired general who would be the highest-ranking Croatian official ever indicted by the court, said Goran Granic, the vice prime minister. "(The court) is obliged to deliver a document which is legally and formally correct," he said. "Only then can we act upon it." The warrant...