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Bush, Rios Montt, Stroessner, Cedras, Izetbegovic, Ahmeti, Albright, Thaci, Clark, Short, Solana, Franks, Barak, Haradinaj, Reagan, Netanyahu, Blair, Cook, Thatcher, Jospin, Fischer, Aznar...sorry, I thought they were speaking about war criminals. US to "work hard" with NATO to arrest Karadzic, Mladic: Prosper Thursday, 18-Apr-2002 6:40AM Story from AFP Copyright 2002 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet) SARAJEVO, April 18 (AFP) - The United States will work hard with the NATO to arrest the two most wanted Bosnian war crimes suspects, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, US envoy Pierre-Richard Prosper said Thursday. "The US will work hard in its efforts with the NATO to apprehend these individuals" Karadzic and Mladic, said Prosper, who is Washington's US ambassador at large for war crimes, told reporters after meeting with Bosnia's tripartite presidency. US troops are part of the 18,500-strong NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) deployed in Bosnia, which has arrested 24 war crimes suspects since the end of the 1992-95 war. US troops participated in first of SFOR's two failed attempts to nab Karadzic in southeastern Bosnia earlier this year. Karadzic, the wartime Bosnian Serb president, and his military commander General Mladic top the most wanted list of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The court indicted both men for genocide, the gravest of war crimes, in 1995. There are more than 20 fugitives, mainly Bosnian Serbs, accused of war crimes during the Bosnian conflit and believed to be hiding in the Serb-run part of Bosnia-Hercegovina or in neighbouring Yugoslavia. Prosper said the US would continue to use its "Rewards for Justice" programe offering up to five million dollars (5.6 million euros) in information leading to the arrest of war crimes suspects, notably Karadzic and Mladic. "We are also prepared to offer relocation of any person and their immediate family who is willing to provide assistance in this regard," he said. Besides a poster campaign offering the reward, the program this year included commercials and leaflets airdropped in the Serb parts of the country. "We have jointly recognized today that the tribunal cannot close nor conclude its mandate until Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic go to The Hague," Prosper said, echoing pledge made here Wednesday by chief war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte. "We will all work together in this regard to either apprehend or encourage the voluntarily surrender so we can move forward and have a normalisation of the society here in Bosnia-Hercegovina," he added. Del Ponte said Wednesday that she had information indicating that Karadzic would be handed over to The Hague by October. She was in Belgrade Thursday to press Yugoslav authorities to hand over Mladic. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
