Whereabouts of Karadžić and Mladić

Sarajevo, 06. februar 2007. (Izvor: B92) - Security services of Serbia and Bosnia exchange weekly intelligence on the whereabouts of war crime indictees.

The Sarajevo daily Dnevni Avaz reported that state security agencies of Bosnia and Serbia and the Ministry of the Interior (MUP) of the Republika Srpska have been meeting once a week in Belgrade for the last several months in order to exchange information and intelligence on the whereabouts of the war crimes indictees.

Quoting sources close to the MUP of the Republika Srpska, the daily said that results are lacking despite intensive co-operation and efforts to find Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić.

An unnamed source who attends the meetings told the daily that none of the three state security agencies has data on Karadžić.

“We all bring up new information at the meetings. Some had information that Karadžić was in Russia, Greece, or at the merger of the Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin borders. We are talking about unsubstantiated operational data. When we last met in Belgrade, it seemed like Karadžić had disappeared into thin air”, the source said.

The source revealed that operational data on Ratko Mladić were abundant and suggest that he has been hiding in Serbia, shielded by a well organized network of military intelligence structures.

“The key to the problem lies in the hands of Vojislav Koštunica, the outgoing Prime Minister, who has never issued an official warrant for Mladić’s arrest”, the source concluded.