Word: bijeljina
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...news that Mladic was captured and flown to the Netherlands via a US Air Force base in Bosnia was first launched on Tuesday afternoon by a folksy local television station in the eastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina. Soon it was picked up by several media outlets in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, and then by major international news agencies and cable television news. The ensuing media frenzy lasted for days despite strong denials of the Serbian government, the Tuzla air base commander, and even Carla Del Ponte, who called for an urgent press conference on Wednesday to state that Mladic...