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Article: Hunters and hunted.(increased efforts to capture Serbian war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- January 21, 2002
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Osama bin Laden isn't the only fugitive on the run. NATO operatives are secretly readying an ambitious scheme to apprehend two other well-known public enemies: Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. The former Bosnian Serb leaders, accused of orchestrating the Bosnian civil war, have eluded capture since NATO troops entered the war-ravaged country in 1995 and, after bin Laden and the Taliban's Mullah Mohammed Omar, remain the two most wanted men on the planet.
Now, U.S. News has learned, American and French special operations experts--at the direction of President Bush and President Jacques Chirac of France--have begun planning for a joint operation to snatch the ...