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How much do you want to bet there are some ;independant operators; in on this now?
Your point is well taken, I doubt that it's really going to result in his or Karadizic's capture either! I have always suspected that deals were cut to keep the big fish from getting caught and that a lot of activity in the 'hunt for (fill in your favorite war criminal honcho here!) was all blow and no go.'
 

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yes both those links have a lot of what I've thought for some time. There had to be a stronger motivation even than the allowing of Republika Srpska to stop the fighting. The fact is they might well have gone on I too don't think Holbrooke would have guaranteed Karadzic or Mladic safety but some person not known to the public, a person who has plausible deniability, who could, in the unlikely event he was discovered say 'Oh what ? Me?! I never said that!' and then all the big fish in the U.S. and the West could go about their business, with both those guys out of the way. IT's always been interesting to me that the British sector has arrested the most accused war-criminals. I always percieved the British as being kind of pro-Serb, more or less as a result of WWII, and the writings of Rebecca West.
The French have a more visceral problem with Muslims, and they don't like the Croats. The French get their problem with Muslims from their time ruling North African colonies, and it's been perpetuated by the presence in France of people who immigrated from their former colonies. The hangover from colonialism was much worse in France than anything in Britain. I think some of this affected people who served in the French army long after their colonial era was
over in ways that simply did not happen with most of the British.
The interesting thing though is that the French Foreign Legion included at one time Gen. Ante Gotovina! He was well in with some very unsavory pied-noir types.
 

The British side was not alone in it's preference for 'stability' President George Bush Sr. tended to think that, and President Clinton waited until nearly the end of his second term to do anything. It was very nearly a case of too little too late. There is still considerable mostly right wing opposition to the intervention, and some hard left opposition too.
The really wierd thing is how much of the rhetoric of this opposition is EXACTLY in the SAME words! I find that very peculiar. I don't know how much it happens in Britain, but it's a marked feature of what little discussion of BiH and the rest of the Balkans goes.