The Karadzic factor

Did the US promise Karadzic lifetime immunity in exchange for Karadzic dropping out of politics?

Some newspapers in Serbia suggest it is true.


ETA: Holbrooke says it isn't so.

Editorial: Trading Genocide for Independence

Remember years ago when the Balkans were covered in "Wanted" posters featuring Karadzic and Mladic's mugs on them?
Yeah, well, it seems as if the one time "Most Wanted Men in the World" will continue to evade capture; as the EU has become much more lax over demands that Mladic be sent to the Hague; in exchange for Serbia not blocking Kosovo's "independence."
Editorial

Justice and Impunity

Human Rights Watch offers a report on the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber. Meanwhile over at Neretva River; Observer offers his take on Ratko Mladic's "miraculous disappearance from EU policy papers." While authorities in the Netherlands criticize the EU for the not being "strict enough with Serbia."
Back in Bosnia, Dodik says that he'd rather stay out of the EU than accept police reforms and the abolishment of the RS police force.
Meanwhile, a Bosnian court recently sentenced a former police officer/mafiaso to 26 years in prison for crimes relating to his second occupation.