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| Karadzic demands Holbrooke and Albright appear in court |
| 2008-08-07 |
| Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic demanded on Wednesday that former U.S. peace mediator Richard Holbrooke and ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appear at the U.N. war crimes tribunal to back his claims of an immunity offer from the United States. Karadzic, who was transferred to the Hague's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia last week to face war crimes and genocide charges after 11 years on the run, challenged the legality of the case against him, a filing released by the tribunal showed. In the document, Karadzic repeated his claims that in 1996 Holbrooke had offered him immunity from the tribunal if he disappeared from public life. Karadzic argued that when Holbrooke realised he could not persuade the court's chief prosecutor to drop the indictment he decided to "liquidate" him instead. He said several attempts had been made to locate and assassinate him, and that he feared "the long arm of Mr. Holbrooke or Mrs. Albright" could reach him even in jail. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Holbrooke and Albright are both Obama advisors--a preview of future policy? |
| Posted by: Danielle 2008-08-07 11:27 |
| #1 If this ever happened, think of the popcorn sales! |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-08-07 03:51 |