WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Clinton tells his generals: Get Karadzic FROM DANIEL MCGRORY IN SARAJEVO Indictment of war crimes | Links At the height of the Balkan war, Dr Karadzic telephones Serb commanders on the frontline to discuss counter strategy as Nato jets pound Serb-held positions Photograph: RADIVOJE PAVICIC / AP © PRESIDENT CLINTON is believed to have told his military commanders that before he leaves the White House he wants them to capture Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader indicted as a war criminal. According to European military sources in Sarajevo, the Americans have stepped up their presence on the ground and their intelligence-gathering from Bosnia in anticipation of a possible seizure operation, some time between the end of the American presidential elections in November and the new year, when Mr Clinton steps down. Undercover teams in the Balkans have intensified their surveillance of Dr Karadzic as he moves between safe houses in the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb Republic he helped to create. A military source in Sarajevo told The Times that there has been a noticeable urgency in recent months and Washington has ordered increased intelligence-gathering. Mr Clinton expects American military chiefs to send a specialist team to the Balkans to make this arrest rather than leave it to the American peacekeepers stationed in this part of former Yugoslavia. A move to arrest Dr Karadzic, who has been indicted twice by the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague, would represent a reversal of American policy in the region. Although American forces have been involved in the arrests of minor suspected war criminals, the Clinton Administration has never been willing to risk losing the lives of American servicemen. Mr Clinton made it clear this week, during a whirlwind tour of Africa, the Middle East and Colombia, that he is searching for a foreign policy success before his term ends. Glimpsed only occasionally under heavy guard or from the back seat of a limousine, Dr Karadzic haunts Bosnia like a ghostly figure from the country's bloody past. "Karadzic is an albatross for us. He is a poison cloud hanging over this place," Jacques Klein, the head of the UN mission in Bosnia, said. "While he is at large hardline Serbs are emboldened to resist. We should get him before the parliamentary elections on November 11 to remove his influence on the Serb voters." Bob Dole, the veteran Republican senator, was in Sarajevo last week to raise funds for those trying to find and identify the 4,000 boys and men still missing after the massacre at Srebrenica. War-crimes investigators accuse Dr Karadzic of ordering the murders. "We may as well give the man a free pass," Mr Dole said. "It's an insult to those who lost someone in Srebrenica that he is still running about in fast cars, drinking the best wines and living well." Like many, Mr Dole is unimpressed by the resident military presence known as Kfor which seems to do all it can to avoid meeting Dr Karadzic. The oft-recited official Kfor stance is that if it should bump into him, or others on the wanted list, it would apprehend them as long as it does not endanger innocent bystanders. What it will not do is go hunting for him. Mr Dole told how, during a previous visit to the region, he was kept waiting outside a hotel. When he asked the reason for the delay it was explained that they were just waiting for Dr Karadzic to leave by the back door. He had been having a meeting and thought it might embarrass Mr Dole to be on the same premises. The armed bodyguards provided by the American Embassy in Sarajevo had made no move. Ever since The Hague indictment, Dr Karadzic has slipped from public view. While his old comrade, General Ratko Mladic, is seen at the races and football matches in Belgrade and everyone knows his address in the city, all that the Americans have heard of Dr Karadzic is rumour. Serb sympathisers, posing as bounty hunters after the $5 million (£3.3 million) reward the US is offering, have left false trails to lead investigators off the scent. One report had expertly forged pictures of him in Moscow. Another sighting had him in Belgrade under President Milosevic's protection. One of the more fanciful theories was that the man with the most ridiculous haircut in the Balkans had cut it, grown a beard and was posing as an Orthodox priest and using monasteries and churches as his shelter. Among the few positive sightings was an occasion during the last Orthodox Christmas when he accompanied his wife, Ljiljana, and daughter to church in Pale. His wife is strident in her defence of her husband's innocence. She refuses to talk about this to Western journalists but remains head of the Red Cross in Republika Srpska, insisting that Bosnian officials in the movement travel into enemy territory for meetings with her as she is afraid of assassination. She made a rare public appearance in Pale six weeks ago when she read a statement from her husband to mark the tenth anniversary of his Serb Democratic Party, which he founded and then nominated himself as its leader. Aides say their marriage has survived the months of separation and, for the sake of security, Ljiljana does not ask where her husband is going. Pale, an enclave of neat wooden chalets with red-tiled roofs dotted across the mountains, does not welcome inquiries about its missing favourite son. Unwanted visitors are given warning of the dangers to their health should they persist with such curiosity. The reason for the hostility, say many Bosnian military officials, is that they believe Dr Karadzic is seldom far away. They are convinced that he has rarely, if ever, left Srpska since the war ended five years ago and he has never been short of safe houses belonging to wealthy supporters still loyal to him. Dr Karadzic is believed to use properties in the hamlet of Han Poljeck, 20 miles east of Sarajevo, near the Montenegro border where he lived as a child. In the past three months there have been a number of sightings of him at Foca, a Serb stronghold on the banks of the Drina River where his troops set up a rape camp in the high school. Amor Masovic, head of the Muslim Commission for Missing Persons, claims that Dr Karadzic was only seven miles away in July when thousands of relatives met near Srebrenica to mourn the 7,000 who died on the doctor's orders. The only encouraging sign for Mr Clinton is that Dr Karadzic's bravado has gone. The website he set up, advertising the fact that he was still in Srpska with pictures to prove it, has gone. He is now said to be a morose, brooding and frightened figure, who spends hours locked in a room, refusing to talk to anyone. M Klein said: "If he is innocent then let him come to The Hague and give us the proof. Hopefully we will move to arrest him very soon and then he can concentrate on his memoirs while he spends many years in a cell." (Note: What about the crimes Clinton hsas done on the American people! - Bill) *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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