INAT
09-19-2008, 01:04 AM
Serbian military intelligence agents ‘barred from Mladic hunt’
Serbia’s military intelligence agents have been barred from the search for top war crimes suspect General Ratko Mladic, apparently amid suspicions of helping him evade justice, daily Blic reports.
http://www.axisglobe.com/Image/2008/09/16/mladic%20ap%20copy.jpg Ratko Mladic The popular paper writes that the Military Security Agency, VBA, is excluded from the search for Bosnian Serb wartime military commander and that its boss Svetko Kovac did not attend the meetings with The Hague tribunal’s Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz despite this being the case during Brammertz's two previous visits to Serbia.
Serbia’s Chief war crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said Brammertz was not briefed on the details about the search for Mladic, adding that since “our principle is that the least possible number of people knows the details (of the search) and since many people were present in the meeting we did not discuss it further.” Vukcevic also said the civilian Security and Informative Agency, BIA, chief, Sasa Vukadinovic, would later brief Brammertz on this.
Blic reports that Vukadinovic is investigating agents in the security services and policemen who are suspected of leaking classified information to Mladic.
Belgrade arrested and extradited Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime political leader, indicted twice of genocide alongside with Mladic, last July, only days after Vukadinovic took over the Security and Informative Agency.
Vukcevic refused to specify how close the security services had got to Mladic but he told Blic that Mladic’s arrest would not be as straight-forward as Karadzic’s, adding that Mladic has a number of armed bodyguards. “Mladic’s immediate security includes people ready to use weapons at any time. That makes his arrest much more difficult than the one of Karadzic,” Vukcevic said. He added that the information available so far suggests Mladic would not voluntarily surrender. Unlike Kardzic, Vukcevic said, Mladic has not changed his appearance and is hiding using different tactics.
No proof Mladic is in Serbia, foreign intelligence agencies reportedly not involved in search
The last raid in search for the top war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic was organized recently in Serbia, the president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, Rasim Ljalic, revealed to the daily Vecernje Novosti. He praised it by saying that "not even the media knew anything about it". "We will seek to in the future, too, carry out our actions in this way, because it raises our chances of success. Even the Tribunal complimented us on that raid," he said, and explained that "security services and if need be other state structures" are all taking part in the search for Mladic.
Ljalic denied that foreign intelligence agencies were also involved, adding at the same time that official Belgrade "accepts and is ready for any form of cooperation", regardless of whether the information comes from "our own or foreign services".
Ljajic also told the newspaper "his guess is" that the number of people surrounding Mladic is small, and that "all the attention is now focused on locating him". "Only after this, we will consider the security situation concerning his arrest, because this question is sensitive and is not irrelevant," Ljajic said, and added it was "still too early" to discuss the former Bosnian Serb general's money sources, but that the Belgrade authorities "have indications about this". "We are carrying out our activities as if he was in Serbia, but at this time there is no evidence or lead to corroborate this. Discussion about whether Mladic is in Serbia and where he is hiding is useless and will lead us nowhere."
Bosnia’s Security and Intelligence Agency not to blame for missing Mladic’s fingerprints
The director of the Security and Intelligence Agency (BIA) of Bosnia, Sasa Vukadinovic, denies claims that a document containing was fugitive Ratko Mladić’s fingerprints went missing from his agency, daily Blic reports.
In a statement, Vukadinovic says that “it is not true that a document containing Ratko Mladić’s fingerprint has disappeared from BIA.” He points out that BIA does not issue personal documents such as passports or personal ID cards, and therefore, the file in question could not have disappeared from his agency. Vukadinovic said that all the documentation that BIA possessed was absolutely secure.
Meanwhile, President of the National Council for the Hague Cooperation Rasim Ljajic highly praised all the services involved in the hunt for the remaining Hague fugitives saying they were cooperating superbly.
Ljajić said that the Action team for the location, arrest and transfer of Hague fugitives, which includes the BIA director, was working “as one”. "We have excellent cooperation and coordination between the security services in the search for the Hague fugitives,” Ljajić told Tanjug, following speculation that the Military Security Agency had been left out of the search for Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic. Ljajiv also said that the BIA had nothing to do with the missing file containing Mladic’s fingerprints.
He said that the information that a document had disappeared was correct, though he added that it was not known whether such a file ever even existed. Ljalic reiterated that the Action Team had in its possession Mladić’s ID card issued on November 3, 1999 at the police station in Lermontova Street in Belgrade, which houses the customs police, and the police for foreign citizens and administrative affairs. "If it is determined that the documentation containing Mladic’s fingerprints actually did exist, then it means that it has disappeared. However it is possible that such documentation never existed, but that Mladic got his ID, for instance, simply by asking for it over the phone,” he explained.
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1650 towards the end of page.
Some of you know my personal feelings on Mladic but that does not matter this is a report from intel services. Will they catch him?
You know Serbs respect military leaders more than politicians like Radovan. The Hague would never give him a fair trial. I will not go into it
But I don't think General Ratko Mladic will be as easy to capture. I personally do not think he will be captured. This is a tough subject to try to discuss with any truth.
Serbia’s military intelligence agents have been barred from the search for top war crimes suspect General Ratko Mladic, apparently amid suspicions of helping him evade justice, daily Blic reports.
http://www.axisglobe.com/Image/2008/09/16/mladic%20ap%20copy.jpg Ratko Mladic The popular paper writes that the Military Security Agency, VBA, is excluded from the search for Bosnian Serb wartime military commander and that its boss Svetko Kovac did not attend the meetings with The Hague tribunal’s Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz despite this being the case during Brammertz's two previous visits to Serbia.
Serbia’s Chief war crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said Brammertz was not briefed on the details about the search for Mladic, adding that since “our principle is that the least possible number of people knows the details (of the search) and since many people were present in the meeting we did not discuss it further.” Vukcevic also said the civilian Security and Informative Agency, BIA, chief, Sasa Vukadinovic, would later brief Brammertz on this.
Blic reports that Vukadinovic is investigating agents in the security services and policemen who are suspected of leaking classified information to Mladic.
Belgrade arrested and extradited Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime political leader, indicted twice of genocide alongside with Mladic, last July, only days after Vukadinovic took over the Security and Informative Agency.
Vukcevic refused to specify how close the security services had got to Mladic but he told Blic that Mladic’s arrest would not be as straight-forward as Karadzic’s, adding that Mladic has a number of armed bodyguards. “Mladic’s immediate security includes people ready to use weapons at any time. That makes his arrest much more difficult than the one of Karadzic,” Vukcevic said. He added that the information available so far suggests Mladic would not voluntarily surrender. Unlike Kardzic, Vukcevic said, Mladic has not changed his appearance and is hiding using different tactics.
No proof Mladic is in Serbia, foreign intelligence agencies reportedly not involved in search
The last raid in search for the top war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic was organized recently in Serbia, the president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, Rasim Ljalic, revealed to the daily Vecernje Novosti. He praised it by saying that "not even the media knew anything about it". "We will seek to in the future, too, carry out our actions in this way, because it raises our chances of success. Even the Tribunal complimented us on that raid," he said, and explained that "security services and if need be other state structures" are all taking part in the search for Mladic.
Ljalic denied that foreign intelligence agencies were also involved, adding at the same time that official Belgrade "accepts and is ready for any form of cooperation", regardless of whether the information comes from "our own or foreign services".
Ljajic also told the newspaper "his guess is" that the number of people surrounding Mladic is small, and that "all the attention is now focused on locating him". "Only after this, we will consider the security situation concerning his arrest, because this question is sensitive and is not irrelevant," Ljajic said, and added it was "still too early" to discuss the former Bosnian Serb general's money sources, but that the Belgrade authorities "have indications about this". "We are carrying out our activities as if he was in Serbia, but at this time there is no evidence or lead to corroborate this. Discussion about whether Mladic is in Serbia and where he is hiding is useless and will lead us nowhere."
Bosnia’s Security and Intelligence Agency not to blame for missing Mladic’s fingerprints
The director of the Security and Intelligence Agency (BIA) of Bosnia, Sasa Vukadinovic, denies claims that a document containing was fugitive Ratko Mladić’s fingerprints went missing from his agency, daily Blic reports.
In a statement, Vukadinovic says that “it is not true that a document containing Ratko Mladić’s fingerprint has disappeared from BIA.” He points out that BIA does not issue personal documents such as passports or personal ID cards, and therefore, the file in question could not have disappeared from his agency. Vukadinovic said that all the documentation that BIA possessed was absolutely secure.
Meanwhile, President of the National Council for the Hague Cooperation Rasim Ljajic highly praised all the services involved in the hunt for the remaining Hague fugitives saying they were cooperating superbly.
Ljajić said that the Action team for the location, arrest and transfer of Hague fugitives, which includes the BIA director, was working “as one”. "We have excellent cooperation and coordination between the security services in the search for the Hague fugitives,” Ljajić told Tanjug, following speculation that the Military Security Agency had been left out of the search for Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic. Ljajiv also said that the BIA had nothing to do with the missing file containing Mladic’s fingerprints.
He said that the information that a document had disappeared was correct, though he added that it was not known whether such a file ever even existed. Ljalic reiterated that the Action Team had in its possession Mladić’s ID card issued on November 3, 1999 at the police station in Lermontova Street in Belgrade, which houses the customs police, and the police for foreign citizens and administrative affairs. "If it is determined that the documentation containing Mladic’s fingerprints actually did exist, then it means that it has disappeared. However it is possible that such documentation never existed, but that Mladic got his ID, for instance, simply by asking for it over the phone,” he explained.
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1650 towards the end of page.
Some of you know my personal feelings on Mladic but that does not matter this is a report from intel services. Will they catch him?
You know Serbs respect military leaders more than politicians like Radovan. The Hague would never give him a fair trial. I will not go into it
But I don't think General Ratko Mladic will be as easy to capture. I personally do not think he will be captured. This is a tough subject to try to discuss with any truth.