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Karadzic seeks extradition delay
Mr Karadzic masqueraded as an expert in human quantum energy
Prosecutors at The Hague war-crimes tribunal say they expect the
extradition of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to be
delayed.
Mr Karadzic's lawyer has made it clear he will appeal against the
extradition at the very last minute on Friday.
However Serbian war crimes prosecutors says they expect Mr Karadzic to
be sent to The Hague next week.
Mr Karadzic plans to conduct his own defence in his trial - something
the tribunal prosecutors oppose.
Mr Karadzic was captured on Monday after more than a decade in
hiding.
He is being held in Belgrade pending his extradition to the United
Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in
The Hague.
Try telling any Serb that The Hague is a true international court.
It is not and it is illegitimate
Milica Milivojevic
BBC website reader
Karadzic capture: Readers react
Sarajevo cafes stir with intrigue
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His lawyer, Sveta Vujacic, says he will appeal against the extradition
- but not until just before Friday's deadline, and that the document
will be posted instead of being hand delivered.
Correspondents say this is a delaying tactic, and that as it is almost
inevitable that Mr Karadzic will be extradited to The Hague his lawyer
appears to be just playing for time.
There is speculation that, like the former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic, Mr Karadzic intends to drag proceedings out for as long as
possible - possibly until 2010, when the court's United Nations
mandate runs out.
Russia, which has a veto on the UN Security Council, has said it will
oppose any extension.
'Looking good'
Mr Vujacic also says Mr Karadzic has had a shave and cut the long mane
of hair that had helped disguise him during his 13 years on the run.
THE CHARGES
Eleven counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and
other atrocities
Charged over shelling Sarajevo during the city's siege, in which some
12,000 civilians died
Allegedly organised the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths
in Srebrenica
Targeted Bosniak and Croat political leaders, intellectuals and
professionals
Unlawfully deported and transferred civilians because of national or
religious identity
Destroyed homes, businesses and sacred sites
After Karadzic, is Mladic next?
Profile: Radovan Karadzic
Serbia's 'News Story of the Year'
"He's looking good," Mr Vujacic told AFP news agency. "He now looks
just like before."
The BBC's Mike Wooldridge in The Hague says Mr Karadzic could be asked
to respond to the 11 charges against him within days of his arrival.
If he is found guilty he would, like others who have been imprisoned
by the tribunal, serve his sentence in one of the 20 or so countries
that have agreed to take those convicted for war crimes carried out in
the conflicts in former Yugoslavia.
Mr Karadzic, 63, declared independence for Bosnian Serbs in 1991,
sparking the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
He has been indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide over the
massacre of up to 8,000 mainly-Muslim Bosniaks at Srebrenica in 1995.
He has also been charged over the shelling of Sarajevo, and the use of
284 UN peacekeepers as human shields in May and June 1995.
Mr Karadzic has denied the charges and refused to recognise the
legitimacy of the UN tribunal.
He was a close ally of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic,
who was himself extradited to The Hague tribunal in 2001, but died in
2006, shortly before a verdict was due to be delivered.
Life on the run
Mr Karadizic went into hiding in the years after the war, but was
discovered to be posing as a doctor of alternative medicine in
Belgrade.
Bosnian Serb forces waged a brutal campaign against Bosniaks and
Croats
He was arrested on a bus in a suburb of Serbia's capital on Monday.
More details have emerged of his life on the run practising
alternative medicine under the name of Dragan Dabic.
Masquerading as an expert in human quantum energy, the fugitive was so
confident in his disguise he even had his own website, and would give
out business cards during alternative medicine lectures.
His card gave his name as D D David, D D apparently standing for his
pseudonym Dragan Dabic.
Under his alias, Mr Karadzic gave lectures comparing meditation and
silent techniques practised by Orthodox monks. He spoke in Belgrade in
May, and also in the town of Smederevo, east of the capital.
Serbian intelligence officers were on the trail of Gen Mladic when
they stumbled upon Mr Karadzic, said the office of Serbia's war-crimes
prosecutor.
Serbia has been urged to follow up the arrest of Mr Karadzic by
quickly catching his wartime commander, Ratko Mladic.
The arrest of Mr Karadzic and other war-crime suspects is one of the
main conditions of Serbian progress towards joining the EU.
A new European-leaning government took office in Serbia earlier this
month.
Mr Karadzic was questioned by a Serbian judge on Tuesday, who ruled
that he should be extradited.
Karadzic seeks extradition delay
Mr Karadzic masqueraded as an expert in human quantum energy
Prosecutors at The Hague war-crimes tribunal say they expect the
extradition of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to be
delayed.
Mr Karadzic's lawyer has made it clear he will appeal against the
extradition at the very last minute on Friday.
However Serbian war crimes prosecutors says they expect Mr Karadzic to
be sent to The Hague next week.
Mr Karadzic plans to conduct his own defence in his trial - something
the tribunal prosecutors oppose.
Mr Karadzic was captured on Monday after more than a decade in
hiding.
He is being held in Belgrade pending his extradition to the United
Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in
The Hague.
Try telling any Serb that The Hague is a true international court.
It is not and it is illegitimate
Milica Milivojevic
BBC website reader
Karadzic capture: Readers react
Sarajevo cafes stir with intrigue
Send us your comments
His lawyer, Sveta Vujacic, says he will appeal against the extradition
- but not until just before Friday's deadline, and that the document
will be posted instead of being hand delivered.
Correspondents say this is a delaying tactic, and that as it is almost
inevitable that Mr Karadzic will be extradited to The Hague his lawyer
appears to be just playing for time.
There is speculation that, like the former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic, Mr Karadzic intends to drag proceedings out for as long as
possible - possibly until 2010, when the court's United Nations
mandate runs out.
Russia, which has a veto on the UN Security Council, has said it will
oppose any extension.
'Looking good'
Mr Vujacic also says Mr Karadzic has had a shave and cut the long mane
of hair that had helped disguise him during his 13 years on the run.
THE CHARGES
Eleven counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and
other atrocities
Charged over shelling Sarajevo during the city's siege, in which some
12,000 civilians died
Allegedly organised the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths
in Srebrenica
Targeted Bosniak and Croat political leaders, intellectuals and
professionals
Unlawfully deported and transferred civilians because of national or
religious identity
Destroyed homes, businesses and sacred sites
After Karadzic, is Mladic next?
Profile: Radovan Karadzic
Serbia's 'News Story of the Year'
"He's looking good," Mr Vujacic told AFP news agency. "He now looks
just like before."
The BBC's Mike Wooldridge in The Hague says Mr Karadzic could be asked
to respond to the 11 charges against him within days of his arrival.
If he is found guilty he would, like others who have been imprisoned
by the tribunal, serve his sentence in one of the 20 or so countries
that have agreed to take those convicted for war crimes carried out in
the conflicts in former Yugoslavia.
Mr Karadzic, 63, declared independence for Bosnian Serbs in 1991,
sparking the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
He has been indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide over the
massacre of up to 8,000 mainly-Muslim Bosniaks at Srebrenica in 1995.
He has also been charged over the shelling of Sarajevo, and the use of
284 UN peacekeepers as human shields in May and June 1995.
Mr Karadzic has denied the charges and refused to recognise the
legitimacy of the UN tribunal.
He was a close ally of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic,
who was himself extradited to The Hague tribunal in 2001, but died in
2006, shortly before a verdict was due to be delivered.
Life on the run
Mr Karadizic went into hiding in the years after the war, but was
discovered to be posing as a doctor of alternative medicine in
Belgrade.
Bosnian Serb forces waged a brutal campaign against Bosniaks and
Croats
He was arrested on a bus in a suburb of Serbia's capital on Monday.
More details have emerged of his life on the run practising
alternative medicine under the name of Dragan Dabic.
Masquerading as an expert in human quantum energy, the fugitive was so
confident in his disguise he even had his own website, and would give
out business cards during alternative medicine lectures.
His card gave his name as D D David, D D apparently standing for his
pseudonym Dragan Dabic.
Under his alias, Mr Karadzic gave lectures comparing meditation and
silent techniques practised by Orthodox monks. He spoke in Belgrade in
May, and also in the town of Smederevo, east of the capital.
Serbian intelligence officers were on the trail of Gen Mladic when
they stumbled upon Mr Karadzic, said the office of Serbia's war-crimes
prosecutor.
Serbia has been urged to follow up the arrest of Mr Karadzic by
quickly catching his wartime commander, Ratko Mladic.
The arrest of Mr Karadzic and other war-crime suspects is one of the
main conditions of Serbian progress towards joining the EU.
A new European-leaning government took office in Serbia earlier this
month.
Mr Karadzic was questioned by a Serbian judge on Tuesday, who ruled
that he should be extradited.
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