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Article: NATO arrests Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect, say Bosnian Serb police
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- April 1, 2002
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Dateline: BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Foreign officials in Bosnia on Monday arrested a former Bosnian Serb
major indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal, Bosnian Serb police
said.
The suspect, Momir Nikolic, was arrested in his house near the eastern
Bosnian town of Bratunac at noon local time (1000 GMT), the local
police chief in nearby Zvornik, Mane Curic, said.
NATO did not confirm the arrest, but the spokesman for the Bosnian
Serb Interior Ministry, Zoran Glusac, said he believed the 18 foreigners
belonged to the NATO-led peacekeeping force stationed in the country.
Curic told The Associated Press by phone that 18 foreigners _ wearing
civilian clothes and ...