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Wednesday August 14, 11:42 PM SFOR engage ground troops to get info on Karadzic NATO-led peacekeepers in Bosnia launched a massive operation in southeastern Bosnia to pursue information on a network of supporters protecting the country's most wanted war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic. "Today SFOR (Stabilisation Force) soldiers...began ground and helicopter patrols in southern Republika Srpska (Serb-run half of Bosnia) to pursue information SFOR has received concerning Radovan Karadzic's support network," Scott Lundy, a SFOR spokesman told AFP on Wednesday. The network includes Karadzic's bodyguards and family members, he added. "We are trying to get more information related to them,...

Wednesday July 3, 4:05 AM Bush stands firm against International Criminal Court President George W. Bush said he hoped to "work out" an impasse with the United Nations over the new International Criminal Court but stood by his repudiation of the tribunal. "We'll try to work out the impasse at the United Nations. But one thing we're not going to do is sign on to the International Criminal Court," Bush said during a brief visit here to tout his domestic agenda. Washington on Sunday vetoed renewal of the UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia to highlight its concerns that the court...

Bush pressures Yugoslavia for greater cooperation with war crimes tribunal Sat Apr 27, 8:12 PM ET By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer CRAWFORD, Texas - President George W. Bush (news - web sites) says Yugoslavia's president should cooperate more fully with the U.N. war crimes tribunal and said such help is critical to the country's integration with Europe. Bush praised recent steps by Yugoslavia "to meet its international obligations" but appealed for President Vojislav Kostunica (news - web sites), a moderate nationalist who opposes the tribunal, to do more. "To continue on the path to European integration, Yugoslavia's full cooperation...