Karadzic demands Holbrooke, Albright appear in court

[babylonsister]

Karadzic demands Holbrooke, Albright appear in court

Reed Stevenson
Reuters North American News Service

Aug 06, 2008 11:56 EST


AMSTERDAM, Aug 6 (Reuters) - 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.

"It is because of this and because of the fact that an agreement between the USA and me has been breached that I wish to challenge the legality of the proceedings in their entirety and as well as any individual step thereof," Karadzic said in the four-page filing, translated into English from Serbian.

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[Wetzelbill]

1. That's interesting stuff, I'll have to give Richard a call and see what's up

Oh wait, I don't have his number, WTF am I talking about?

I do have his book though.

[babylonsister]

2. Ha! And to think, I was less than 6 degress of separation! nt

[Wetzelbill]

3. I do know Kurovski though

He might know something. :)

[babylonsister]

4. Is that the guy who's running for something?

:shrug:

[Wetzelbill]

5. That would be me, but I'm an empty suit and he's my Cheney

:rofl:

I'm kind of curious how Holbrooke and Albright could be losing a PR battle to freaking Radovan Karadzic, lol. Maybe they'll do better with Mladic. Or not.

[Kurovski]

6. I know nothing.

NOTHEEEENG!!!

In fact, I almost just now misspelled "know".