On Jul 23, 2:20=A0am, Nomen Nescio <nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dr Quite" <qu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> news:4885ab2c$0$656$bed64819@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I didn't read your garbage, Normen, Your heading was sufficient--
I just scrolled down, hit "reply" then back up. (That's so others
won't have to scroll all the way down to read my reply - that's if
they'll bother!.
)
You are a waste of space, Normen!
L.
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>
> > "kangarooistan" <khan.gu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>news:ffa295b2-854d-4141-a6eb-0dfa4cb40814@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Everybody who in any way helped Bush Blair and Howard
>
> BREAKING NEWS:
>
> Radovan Karadzic, Europe's most wanted man, arrested for war crimes
> =B7 Bosnian Serb indicted over Srebrenica
> =B7 Fugitive on the run for 12 years
>
> The man indicted for the Srebrenica massacre and the Sarajevo siege,
amon=
g other war crimes, was arrested by Serbian security officers and taken
bef=
ore a war crimes court in Belgrade, according to a statement from the
offic=
e of the Serbian president, Boris Tadic.
>
> Karadzic was said to have been under surveillance for weeks after a
tip-o=
ff from an unnamed foreign intelligence agency, and had been picked up in
B=
elgrade. The prosecutor's office at The Hague war crimes tribunal said it
e=
xpected 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
to=
ok up position around the court, a precaution against a backlash from
ultra=
-nationalists.
>
> The arrest came on the eve of a European foreign ministers' meeting
about=
Serbia's ties with the EU, which has made action against Karadzic and his
=
former military commander, Ratko Mladic, a condition of member****p. It
also=
came days after the formation of a pro-western coalition government
pledge=
d to pursue EU accession.
>
> http://www.docstoc.com/docs/963253/Radovan-Karadzic
>
> Belgrade, 22 July. Radovan Karadzic, the ex Serbian-Bosnian president
> accused of crimes against humanity, and captured by the authorities of
> Belgrade, was working under false name as a doctor near the Serbian
capit=
al.
> He had grown a beard, and changed his name to Dragan Dabic. He was
workin=
g
> in an alternative medicine doctor's office. According to a first
> reconstruction of the Serbian press and his lawyer, Karadzic was
captured=
on
> a bus which was travelling from Belgrade to Batajnica, a town north of
th=
e
> capital. In a first photograph after his arrest he seems unrecognizable,
> visibily thin.
>
> a.. BBC News: Karadzic 'Worked in Serb Clinic' (July 22, 2008)
> a.. B92 News: Karad=9Eic "Practiced Alternative Medicine" (July 22,
2008)
> a.. Radio Netherlands: Karadzic Led Normal Life (July 22, 2008)
> a.. Telegraph: Radovan Karadzic Was Disguised As Doctor (July 22, 2008)
> a.. ABC News: Hiding in Plain Site, Karadzic Arrested in Serb Capitol
(Ju=
ly
> 22, 2008)
> a.. The Associated Press: Karadzic to Reunite with Old Comrades... (July
=
22,
> 2008)
> a.. The Guardian: War Crimes Fugitive Radovan Karadzic Arrested (July
21,
> 2008)
>
> Authorities missed arresting Karad=9Eic in 1995, when he was an invitee
o=
f the
> United Nations. During his visit to the United nations in 1993, he was
> handed a service of process for a civil claim under the Alien Tort Act.
T=
he
> Courts ruled that Karad=9Eic was properly served and the trial was
allowe=
d to
> proceed in United States District Court[7]. From 1996 until 2008, he was
=
a
> fugitive indicted for war crimes by the International Tribunal for the
> Former Yugoslavia; the Interpol warrant cites assault, crimes against
> humanity, crimes against life and health, genocide, grave breaches of
the
> 1949 Geneva conventions, murder, plunder, and violations of the laws or
> customs of war. The indictment [8] charges Karad=9Eic on the basis of
his
> individual criminal responsibility (Article 7(1) of the Statute) and
> superior criminal responsibility (Article 7(3) of the Statute) with:
>
> =A0 a.. Two counts of genocide (Article 4 of the Statute - genocide,
> complicity in genocide);
> =A0 b.. Five counts of crimes against humanity (Article 5 of the Statute
=
-
> extermination, murder, persecutions on political, racial and religious
> grounds, persecutions, inhumane acts (forcible transfer));
> =A0 c.. Three counts of violations of the laws or customs of war
(Article=
3 of
> the Statute - murder, unlawfully inflicting terror upon civilians,
taking
> hostages);
> =A0 d.. One count of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions (Article 2
=
of
> the Statute - willful killing).
> In his defense, his sup****ters say that he is no more guilty than any
oth=
er
> war-time political leader. His ability to evade capture for over a
decade
> made him a local hero among the Bosnian Serbs, despite an alleged deal
wi=
th
> Richard Holbrooke. In 2001, hundreds of sup****ters demonstrated in
sup****=
t
> of Karad=9Eic in his home town. In March 2003, his mother, Jovanka,
publi=
cly
> urged him not to surrender.
>
> In November 2004, British defence officials conceded that military
action
> was unlikely to be successful in bringing Karad=9Eic and other suspects
t=
o
> trial, and that putting political pressure on Balkan governments would
be
> more likely to succeed.
>
> In 2005, Bosnian Serb leaders called on Karad=9Eic to surrender, stating
=
that
> Bosnia and Serbia could not move ahead economically or politically while
=
he
> remained at large.
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