A NATO-led raid on a compound in southeast Bosnia has failed to result in the capture of Bosnian Serb Radovan Karadzic. The former Bosnian Serb is wanted by the UN War Crimes Tribunal for alleged war crimes and genocide committed during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
This morning, SFOR peacekeeping troops acted on a tip-off that he may have been hiding out near the town of Celebici. But a raid on a compound there, using helicopters and armoured vehicles, produced no Karadzic.
An SFOR statement said that "significant quantities of anti-tank rockets, grenades, mortar rounds, automatic machine guns, and antipersonnel mines" had been recovered. This was the first time NATO has publicly said it carried out such a manoeuvre in the search for Karadzic, who is the most wanted man on the Tribunal's list.
