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By Dusan Stojanovic BELGRADE, Serbia - The real Dragan Dabic has emerged - and the 66- year-old construction worker was shocked Thursday to discover his identity had apparently been stolen by one of the world's most notorious war crimes suspects. Radovan Karadzic assumed Dabic's identity as a cover during the autocratic rule of his mentor Slobodan Milosevic, officials said Thursday, promising to track down anyone who helped the Bosnian Serb warlord stay on the run from genocide charges for...

Text of report in English by Paris-based Sudanese newspaper Sudan Tribune website on 24 July 24 July 2008 (Al-Fashir) - The US charge d'affaires, Alberto Fernandez said he was "disappointed" with the speech of the Sudanese president Umar Hasan al-Bashir that he made in Darfur. Fernandez, who accompanied Al-Bashir in his tour of Darfur, was quoted by the daily Al-Hayat published in London as saying that he expected to hear "something new with regards to practical steps that will be taken to...

By The Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Radovan Karadzic grew a long, white beard to conceal his identity and even managed to openly practice alternative medicine while in hiding, officials said Tuesday in revealing details of the war crimes fugitive's capture after a decade on the run.Karadzic, the wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs, was arrested Monday night in a Belgrade suburb, officials said. A judge has ordered his transfer to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague,...

By Tom Hundley and Christine Spolar, Chicago Tribune Jul. 23--Over the past decade, as borders and barriers across an increasingly integrated Europe seemingly fell with each passing day, new ones were being constructed around Serbia. Most Serbs chafed under their deepening isolation, but a sense of national martyrdom and the refusal to turn over two alleged war criminals converged to keep Serbia on Europe's doorstep, a festering trouble spot for the continent. The European Union made...

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC By Dusan Stojanovic The Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia For more than a decade, the world's most-wanted war crimes fugitive displayed a talent for eluding international justice. His secret? Hiding in plain sight. In a ruse worthy of any thriller, Radovan Karadzic transformed himself from a leader instantly recognizable by his famous shock of salt-and-pepper hair into a man resembling a New Age mystic, with a flowing white beard and black robe. Believed to be...

By Lindsay McIntosh IN A private clinic deep in the sprawling concrete suburb of Novi (New) Belgrade, Dr Dragan Dabic was accepted unquestioningly as a quiet, softly spoken practitioner of alternative medicine. During more than a decade out of public view, the Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, once known for his distinctively coiffed hair, had done his utmost to alter his appearance from that of the man the world was hunting. When it finally caught up with him, on Monday,...

THE arrest of Radovan Karadzic, after 13 years on the run, will not bring total closure to the horror story that was the Balkans during the 1990s, but it is a start. For Karadzic was responsible for the worst genocide and ethnic cleansing seen in Europe since the Nazi era, including the murder of 8,000 Muslim Bosnian men and boys in Srebrenica, in July 1995. That particular massacre lasted three long days, as each victim was individually shot in the back of the head with a pistol, before...

BELGRADE, Serbia - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres making him one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested Monday evening in a raid that ended a near 13-year manhunt, the country's president and the U.N. tribunal said. Mr. Karadzic is the suspected mastermind of mass killings that the U.N. war crimes tribunal described as "scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history." They include the 1995 massacre of 8,000...

CHICAGO _ Over the past decade, as borders and barriers across an increasingly integrated Europe seemingly fell with each passing day, new ones were being constructed around Serbia. Most Serbs chafed under their deepening isolation, but a sense of national martyrdom and the refusal to turn over two indicted war criminals converged to keep Serbia on Europe's doorstep, a potential trouble spot for the continent. The European Union made clear that impoverished Serbia would be kept in penury as...

By MARCUS TANNER HOW FRUSTRATED Carla del Ponte must feel. The former chief prosecutor of the Hague war crimes tribunal was desperate to see Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic in the dock before she stood down. "I want my fugitives!" she would declaim on her tours of European capitals, tirelessly fighting off moves by Brussels to give Serbia the chance of EU membership before the handover of the court's two most wanted men. The trial of Slobodan Milosevic, which consumed the latter half of...