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International Law: Everyone has the right to an attorney. But as Ramsey Clark rushes to the side of Saddam Hussein, this may be a case where both the defendant and his counsel can plead insanity...."Clark has been using and aiding mass murders and other American enemies for the last 30 years," conservative pundit David Horowitz said in 2003 of a Clark trip in Iraq. "He should give it a rest." But that is unlikely. ...Clark has defended the who's who of mass murderers — not just Milosevic, but also Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, also accused of war crimes, as...

NATO says it will keep the son of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in custody until he reveals information that may lead to the capture of his father. NATO spokesman in Sarajevo Derek Chappell told the dpa news agency that Aleksandar Karadzic will be kept in detention as long as it takes to get information NATO believes he has. NATO military units picked Karadzic up Thursday at his home in Pale, near Sarajevo. The UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague has indicted the elder Karadzic on charges of genocide and war crimes. There is no information on what...

Nato troops have arrested the son of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, who is wanted for war crimes. Aleksandar "Sasa" Karadzic was detained in Pale, the Bosnian leadership's stronghold during the 1992-1995 war. Witnesses said he was led away in handcuffs and a flak jacket; a hood was put over his head as he was driven away and then flown out by helicopter. A statement from Nato said the arrest happened without incident and the operation was ongoing. It said Aleksandar Karadzic was suspected of giving support to a war crimes suspect indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for...

Top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been located in Serbia and his arrest and extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal is imminent, a prominent Belgrade newspaper reported today. The independent Danas said the current location of the war-time Bosnian Serb army commander was provided to the Serbian government by chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte during her June 2 visit to Belgrade. The report could not be independently verified, and a government source refused to comment. Mladic and another top suspect, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, have been on the run since 1995 when they were...

Just four years ago it was not unusual to find wanted war criminal Ratko Mladic enjoying himself at one of Belgrade's finer dining establishments or getting drunk and belligerent at a football match. Hailed as a war hero and protected by President Slobodan Milosevic and the Serbian army, the former Bosnian Serb general was living the good life in retirement. In contrast, try to imagine Himmler or Mengele attending opening night at the Vienna Opera House in 1950. Mladic remained on the payroll of both the Serbian and the Bosnian Serb military for years after he was indicted for war...

US Joins in Coordinated Moves on Balkans War Crimes Fugitives By David Gollust State Department 16 December 2004 The international community Thursday announced new measures against Bosnian Serb officials for failing to hand over indicted Balkans war crimes figures to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. They include targeted sanctions by the United States. The coordinated action by the United States, the International High Representative for Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, and European Union peacekeepers in Bosnia reflects international frustration that key Balkans war crimes figures remain at large. Mr. Ashdown, international overseer of the 1995 Dayton accords on the Balkans conflict,...

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 · Last updated 1:10 p.m. PT Fugitive Karadzic's novel best seller By DUSAN STOJANOVIC ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro -- A novel by Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, the top U.N. war crimes fugitive, was a best seller at Belgrade's international book fair, a publisher and former associate said Tuesday. "Miraculous Chronicles of the Night" was completed by Karadzic in August and has "reached the publisher through secret channels," said former Bosnian Serb Information Minister Miroslav Toholj. All 1,000 copies of the Karadzic novel - a somewhat autobiographical tale set in Sarajevo in the 1980s...

The prosecutor's office at the UN war crimes tribunal has criticised Nato peacekeepers for failing to arrest one of Bosnia's top war crimes suspects. Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been charged with genocide. He has been on the run for past eight years despite attempts to arrest him. Nato insists it is doing all it can to arrest Bosnia's war crimes suspects. But prosecutors say he has been able to remain free partly because Nato has not acted on intelligence provided to them. The chief spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office at The Hague, Florence Hartmann said they regularly received...

July 12 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. Army general expressed confidence that his multinational force is closing in on Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the top war crimes fugitives in Europe, even as Bosnian officials pointed to confusion over who is responsible for capturing them. ``We are beginning to strangle them,'' said Major General Virgil Packett, commander of the Bosnia Stabilization Force, at a briefing before the House Armed Services Committee today in Washington. ``We are hearing them squeal a bit.'' With Bosnia and Herzegovina's entry into the European Union on hold until the men can be detained under United Nations...

Despite optimism of war crimes prosecutor, Karadzic eludes UN tribunal By Anthony Deutsch, Associated Press, 6/30/2004 17:49 The key developments for the U.N. court in the Hague came as its most-wanted suspect, Radovan Karadzic, was still at large, despite predictions by Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte that his arrest would happen before the end of June. Comments by Del Ponte on Tuesday in New York, after she addressed the U.N. Security Council, had left the impression that Karadzic's hand-over was imminent. Some media even reported he had been caught. Asked about Karadzic's arrest, Del Ponte had said: ''Of course I...

The hushed press conference told the story. This was the most significant series of steps ever taken to try to break the network that has been protecting Europe's most wanted man for the past eight years. The chief international envoy to Bosnia, Lord Ashdown, said his aim was "to get rid of the cancer of obstructionism and corruption in the Bosnian Serb Republic (that has been protecting Radovan Karadzic) and nothing less than major surgery will do". Paddy Ashdown outlined 10 measures, including the removal of 60 Bosnian Serb officials, who he said had been helping suspected war criminals in...

THE chief UN war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia said she expects Bosnian Serb wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic to be handed over for prosecution by today. Carla del Ponte refused to disclose the basis for her optimism that Karadzic, who has been in hiding for nearly a decade, will be arrested by the end of the month. "I'm still thinking that somebody is looking for Karadzic very hard, and that he will be arrested very soon," she said. "Of course I have (information). But you all understand that I cannot tell it now publicly. Let's obtain the arrest of...

THE HAGUE -- Thursday – Neither of the Hague Tribunal’s most wanted suspects – former Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic – will ever appear before the international criminal tribunal, says Graham Blewett, The Hague’s outgoing deputy prosecutor. Blewett’s view is sharply opposed to that of Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, who said last week that she expects Karadzic to be captured as early as this month. Hague observers say that the difference of opinion between Del Ponte and her deputy is nothing new, and Blewett himself makes no secret of the fact that his departure has been prompted...

SVatra-89 extends his belated srecan rodjendan through his intermediary to President Radovan Karadzic, who still retains the legitamitacy of the Republika Srpska High Office via the goodwill and support of the Serbian people, the Serbian church and the moral high ground. You are free among the Serbian people. May you pedal in peace, braca!Braca Radovan. Bosna je Crbija, Carajevo je Srbija, Raso je Srbija.=============== BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina (AFP) - Life is not always easy in Bosnia if you are a perfect lookalike of one of the most wanted men on earth, top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic. AFP...

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia - NATO peacekeepers said on Thursday they had detained fugitive former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's wartime defense minister for his alleged support of Serb war crimes suspects. General Bogdan Subotic, defense minister during the 1992-95 Bosnian war and now a military adviser to the Bosnian Serb presidency, was detained on Wednesday night at his home in Banja Luka, the NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) said in a statement. It was the peace force's third arrest operation in two months targeting the support network of persons indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Subotic is...

Albania's opposition leaders have called for a mass demonstration this weekend in a bid to oust a government they contend is corrupt and not doing enough to lift living standards in one of Europe's poorest countries. Former President Sali Berisha's Democratic Party and nine other opposition groups have joined forces ahead of Saturday's protest, an effort to force the resignation of Prime Minister Fatos Nano and his Socialist-led government.

Ex-Bosnian Serb leader and indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic is living in Belgrade, according to chief United Nations prosecutor Carla Del Ponte. Ms Del Ponte said she had received information from a credible source in the Serb capital last week. She described Belgrade as "a haven for fugitives", adding that her office's relations with Serbia had been frozen. Mr Karadzic, charged with genocide for his part in the Bosnian war, remains free eight years after the war ended. Ms Del Ponte said he had apparently joined his former army chief Ratko Mladic in the Serbian capital. "So we have...

Gone, but not quite forgotten Celebici is a remote gnat of a place. A few dozen houses and a church surrounded by forest in the Bosnian hills. But it was as big as the headlines it generated when NATO-led forces staged Operation Daybreak there in February 2002, ostensibly hoping to net Radovan Karadzic - the still-at-large Bosnian Serb leader indicted by The Hague's war crimes tribunal for helping lead a genocide in 1992-95 that killed up to 200,000 people, mostly Bosnian Muslims. Helicopters disgorged black-masked troops, who kicked in doors and blew open locks as they conducted house-to-house searches, but...

(CNN) --NATO-led peacekeepers captured the former bodyguard to Radovan Karadzic, the ex-Bosnian Serb leader wanted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal for a 1995 massacre of 8,000 men and boys. Wednesday's capture marks the second time in recent weeks that a person close to Karadzic has been captured. Zeljko Jankovic, known as Luna, was snatched off the street in a dramatic morning raid as he walked his daughter to school in the city of Bijeljina, according to local media reports. The reports said three masked members of NATO's Stabilization Force jumped from a van, grabbed Jankovic and whisked him away....

26 Jan 2004 14:24:55 GMT West lacks will ever to catch Karadzic-UN prosecutor By Nedim Dervisbegovic SARAJEVO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic is unlikely ever to be arrested as the West lacks the political will to do it, the U.N.'s deputy prosecutor at The Hague was quoted as saying on Monday. "Nothing happens that would give me a reason to believe he will be arrested," deputy prosecutor Graham Blewitt said in the most critical comments yet of the West from a member of the war crimes tribunal. "We at the tribunal have been...