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July 26, 2008

Karadzic Appeals Extradition to The Hague 
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Former Bosnian Serb leader is accused of genocide, crimes against
humanity 
Combination of two pictures shows (L) Radovan Karadzic on phone in Banja
Luka in 1995, and (R) recent picture of Radovan Karadzic in
BelgradeFormer Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has made a
last-minute appeal against his extradition to The Hague tribunal to face
war crimes charges.His lawyer, Svetozar Vujacic, says he filed the
motion by mail late Friday.Serbian authorities arrested Karadzic Monday
in Belgrade, where he had lived openly, practicing alternative medicine
under the name Dragan Dabic.Officials say they tracked him down by
following people thought to be helping him avoid capture.The U.N. war
crimes tribunal has charged Karadzic with genocide and crimes against
humanity for his efforts to ethnically-cleanse Bosnia-Herzegovina of
Muslims and Croats during the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. The charges
include the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
The charges also include his role in the siege of the Bosnian capital,
Sarajevo, by Serb!
  forces during which snipers, shellfire, disease and starvation killed
thousands. With the Karadzic arrest, the Balkan war crimes tribunal's
top fugitive targets now are former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko
Mladic, and ex-Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic. Former Bosnian Serb
police commander Stojan Zupljanin was arrested last month in Serbia.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.