22.7.2008 by CrniLabudovi.

Radovan Karadzic arrest ‘like capturing Osama bin Laden‘
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The arrest of Serbian war crimes fugitive Radavan Karadzic has been compared with capturing Osama bin Laden. Political leaders in Europe and the US have …
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Radovan Karadzic, Europe’s most wanted man, arrested for war crimes

· Bosnian Serb indicted over Srebrenica
· Fugitive on the run for 12 years

• Julian Borger, diplomatic editor
• The Guardian,
• Tuesday July 22, 2008

Karadzic was said to have been under surveillance for weeks after a tip-off from an unnamed foreign intelligence agency, and had been picked up in Belgrade. The prosecutor’s office at The Hague war crimes tribunal said it expected Karadzic to be handed over “in due course”.

Last night he was undergoing formal identification, including DNA testing, and was scheduled to meet investigators. Heavily armed security forces took up position around the court, a precaution against a backlash from ultra-nationalists.

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Guardian

Top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Karadzic arrested
Reuters UK - UK
Richard Holbrooke, former US Balkan troubleshooter during the wars of the 1990s’ described Karadzic as the Osama bin Laden of Europe,” a real, …
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Serbia captures Srebrenica genocide ‘mastermind’ Karadzic
AFP -
Karadzic, 63 — described as the “Osama Bin Laden of Europe” — had been “located and arrested tonight,” said a statement Monday from the office of Serbian …
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Former Bosnian leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested
HotNews.co - Bucharest|,Romania
… brains of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which marked the end of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina named Karadzic, in a BBC interview, Europe’s Osama bin Laden.
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