Thursday, July 24, 2008
Odd trivija about the arrest of Karadžić
Karadžić had a fake I.D. Dragan David Dabić, he had a 'fake wife' too, not bad looking either, who went places with him.
How he got the job at the alternative medicine clinic was fishy, he said that his diplomas and stuff were at his ex-wife's place and the boss bought it! That probably would not happen here in Sarajevo!
The rumors that he was arrested on a city bus were quite true, the #45, they showed the very bus on BHT1 and FTV.
In his thin disguise, he went out to kafanas alone, and the owner of at least one kafana was not fooled by the disguise. He knew VERY damned well it was Karadžić in his latter day hippy guise!
Local news reported that both British and American intelligence services helped the Serbian secret services in this case.
As well, it is reported he spent time in Russia last year, and one of the Mothers of Srebenica reported that Karadžić had been spotted in Vlasnica last year.
No word on the disguise....
It was reported that since his arrest, Karadžić was refusing food, and also that he had shaved off the ridiculous beard and gotten a haircut. One must be careful of one's appearance in court!
I found his disguise just kind of thin, the glasses, the funny hat, (white, with a black band!) and the over-sized walrus mustache and the icky black knots of hair in the gray to be really unattractive, I don't know how he got another woman looking like that!
Really a stupid look and it can't have really fooled anyone for long. He also broke one of the really elementary security rules, by being on T.V., and not just once!
You can't do that in this day and age, and having a web presence that even includes things like mobile phone and house numbers, stupid stupid stupid. So I was wrong, my theory was he was hiding in the woods living off snails or something! Noooo he had become too much of a city slicker for that! I probably could not hack that lifestyle either, I am not blaming him for not doing it.
I learned something else of interest about Karadžić, something far more relevant to discussions of the man than his unfortunate sartorial decisions!
There was a documentary by an Irish woman journalist, who went all over BiH, Serbia, Crna Gora, to research Karadžić a bit, I missed the title of the show, at some point I went to grab a coffee in the kitchen so I can't even say who she is for sure. Anyway she went to Karadžić's native village, a village settled only by his family sometime in the 1600s. The family all look alike, right there that is creepy, (I noticed that about the Princip bunch in a documentary about them in June)
The house he was born in looks like a famine cottage in Ireland, barely one stone is on top of the next, the roof is gone, in short totally deserted. The villager showed the Irish woman journalist the graves of Karadžić's mother, and others. I learned that his father, in his youth raped and killed a cousin! So I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in this case. A relative told the journalist this, I speak well enough to know that she wasn't making this up!
I spent part of the dayx before yesterday with a friend who survived the siege of Sarajevo, she had to go a good 3 miles daily to get water. She lives of course on a hill, and has the same house she and her husband had before the war. She described this daily routine just to get water.
I Know what it is to get around this city on foot carrying stuff, those water jugs were very heavy when full, and no one carried just one, it was more likely to be 3 or 4. Five gallons each, and at a run...under sniper fire...
Dear readers, there are Olympic athletes who would break under a daily regimine like that!
Not surprisingly my friend isn't fond of Karadžić! I said at one point that it was too bad they wouldn't hang the bastard. She said 'I wish that he could be cut up in very small pieces...'
I can't blame her for feeling that way. Even her more creative idea of a punishment is not enough for what destruction he helped unleash on this beautiful country and it's mostly very decent people.
Today both of us wondered how an apparently bright, reasonably good looking young woman could have shared his life in Belgrade, very probably KNOWING what he had done.
I sort of wonder what Karadžić's wife thinks of this part of the story?
How he got the job at the alternative medicine clinic was fishy, he said that his diplomas and stuff were at his ex-wife's place and the boss bought it! That probably would not happen here in Sarajevo!
The rumors that he was arrested on a city bus were quite true, the #45, they showed the very bus on BHT1 and FTV.
In his thin disguise, he went out to kafanas alone, and the owner of at least one kafana was not fooled by the disguise. He knew VERY damned well it was Karadžić in his latter day hippy guise!
Local news reported that both British and American intelligence services helped the Serbian secret services in this case.
As well, it is reported he spent time in Russia last year, and one of the Mothers of Srebenica reported that Karadžić had been spotted in Vlasnica last year.
No word on the disguise....
It was reported that since his arrest, Karadžić was refusing food, and also that he had shaved off the ridiculous beard and gotten a haircut. One must be careful of one's appearance in court!
I found his disguise just kind of thin, the glasses, the funny hat, (white, with a black band!) and the over-sized walrus mustache and the icky black knots of hair in the gray to be really unattractive, I don't know how he got another woman looking like that!
Really a stupid look and it can't have really fooled anyone for long. He also broke one of the really elementary security rules, by being on T.V., and not just once!
You can't do that in this day and age, and having a web presence that even includes things like mobile phone and house numbers, stupid stupid stupid. So I was wrong, my theory was he was hiding in the woods living off snails or something! Noooo he had become too much of a city slicker for that! I probably could not hack that lifestyle either, I am not blaming him for not doing it.
I learned something else of interest about Karadžić, something far more relevant to discussions of the man than his unfortunate sartorial decisions!
There was a documentary by an Irish woman journalist, who went all over BiH, Serbia, Crna Gora, to research Karadžić a bit, I missed the title of the show, at some point I went to grab a coffee in the kitchen so I can't even say who she is for sure. Anyway she went to Karadžić's native village, a village settled only by his family sometime in the 1600s. The family all look alike, right there that is creepy, (I noticed that about the Princip bunch in a documentary about them in June)
The house he was born in looks like a famine cottage in Ireland, barely one stone is on top of the next, the roof is gone, in short totally deserted. The villager showed the Irish woman journalist the graves of Karadžić's mother, and others. I learned that his father, in his youth raped and killed a cousin! So I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in this case. A relative told the journalist this, I speak well enough to know that she wasn't making this up!
I spent part of the dayx before yesterday with a friend who survived the siege of Sarajevo, she had to go a good 3 miles daily to get water. She lives of course on a hill, and has the same house she and her husband had before the war. She described this daily routine just to get water.
I Know what it is to get around this city on foot carrying stuff, those water jugs were very heavy when full, and no one carried just one, it was more likely to be 3 or 4. Five gallons each, and at a run...under sniper fire...
Dear readers, there are Olympic athletes who would break under a daily regimine like that!
Not surprisingly my friend isn't fond of Karadžić! I said at one point that it was too bad they wouldn't hang the bastard. She said 'I wish that he could be cut up in very small pieces...'
I can't blame her for feeling that way. Even her more creative idea of a punishment is not enough for what destruction he helped unleash on this beautiful country and it's mostly very decent people.
Today both of us wondered how an apparently bright, reasonably good looking young woman could have shared his life in Belgrade, very probably KNOWING what he had done.
I sort of wonder what Karadžić's wife thinks of this part of the story?
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To be frank, who cares what she thinks? As ye sow, so also shall ye reap, and she seems to have done her share of sowing ideas in the head under that topknot. What was she enduring while these people were going through what they were going through?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lpP4yrwzLqg&feature=related
I remember the extraordinary live broadcasts of Sarajevo Street Under Siege every evening. It was the dawn of the modern communications era, when we learned that we are all neighbours wherever we happen to live in the world and whatever is happening round us. Your friend's journey to get the water reminded me how steep that street was.
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=lpP4yrwzLqg&feature=related
I remember the extraordinary live broadcasts of Sarajevo Street Under Siege every evening. It was the dawn of the modern communications era, when we learned that we are all neighbours wherever we happen to live in the world and whatever is happening round us. Your friend's journey to get the water reminded me how steep that street was.
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