NATO ministers reportedly discussed such a force, but no agreement was reached. Serbs still refuse to hand over their indicted criminals to the War Crimes Tribunal, although they are supposedly required to under the Dayton accords. Krajisnik himself was never indicted for war crimes, although he was a strong supporter of the siege of Sarajevo, which has been labeled a crime against humanity by the tribunal. International police monitors saw Karadzic in a Jeep on Monday, escorted by heavily armed special police in the Serb government seat of Pale, outside Sarajevo. Not surprisingly, Serb authorities ignored the complaint, with Interior Minister Dragan Kijac in essence calling it no big deal, UPI reports.
Serb nationalists maintain they have no obligation to cooperate with the tribunal.
He allegedly used a bayonet to remove the eye of one Muslim victim. For the first time since the end of World War II, German combat troops have been deployed in Europe outside the country's borders. Armed German soldiers are a potent symbol in the Balkans, where Germans and their Croatian fascist allies, the Ustasha, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Gypsies, and Jews. Gas is an important source of heating in a country striving to recover from a 43-month war but haggling over payment of the debt has put the winter gas supply in doubt. The Russian supplier says it will only send gas to Bosnia until the end of the year unless Bosnia presents a repayment plan for money owed.