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Radovan Karadzic's last lair wasn't a cave or a safe house; no secret bolt-holes or special security details shielded him. Instead, the former Bosnian Serb leader, one of the world's most wanted men, was hiding in plain view amid the drab, anonymous housing blocks of New Belgrade, a suburb of the Serbian capital. He was nabbed not by NATO, whose forces had spent 12 years in a vain and sometimes desultory search for him, but by the security forces of Serbia - the country whose designs for grandeur he had so ardently tried to further...
...After the war, he fled first to the Bosnian hinterlands and then to neighboring Serbia, where nationalist authorities gave him safe harbor. Those who lived through the war will be happy to see Karadzic in shackles. But they will consider it injustice if the authorities in Serbia, after refusing to arrest him for more than a decade, leverage his belated capture for their goal of closer integration with Europe (E.U. talks on the matter are set to begin Tuesday). And if there was a moment when his arrest would have helped reunite Bosnia, it has long passed. The country...
...lesson of the slow response to Karadzic and the Bosnian Serbs is that inaction can breed greater disorder. When tensions mounted in 1992, few in the West realized how little it would take for Milosevic and Karadzic to exploit the ethnic hatred caused by World War II 50 years earlier, or how rapidly the fighting could spread over the peninsula. If Karadzic's timely arrest stood a chance of blunting the legacy of the victims of Srebrenica and Sarajevo, his belated capture surely doesn...
When I worked as a reporter in besieged Sarajevo in 1994 and 1995, I sometimes fantasized (as many who experienced Serb shell and sniper fire did) about the eventual arrest of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. I imagined him in handcuffs, decked out in his camouflage military attire or in one of his trademark double-breasted suits, his silver plume of well-coiffed hair a reminder of the lifestyle he maintained even after he choked off water supplies to his former home city...
...Muslims. In 1637 the Pequot Indian tribe was murdered by Massachusetts militiamen who called themselves ''faithful followers of Jesus Christ.'' After the Spanish-American War, American soldiers chased down Filipino rebels and burned their villages because the U.S. claimed the right to Christianize them. Today Christian Serbs are slaughtering Bosnian Muslims, and antiabortion fanatics wave their Bibles in one hand and torch family-planning clinics with the other. When it comes to violence, Christians take a backseat to no one. Forrest G. Wood Bakersfield, California