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Nick Hawton's “The quest for Radovan Karadžic” is a ground-level exposé of the almost complete cluelessness of the Western spy services that were in charge of hunting the Bosnian Serb wartime leader and indicted war criminal.
At a time when Bosnia and Herzegovina was under the control of tens of thousands of NATO troops (replaced in 2004 by EU peacekeepers whose numbers have now dropped to around 1,600), hundreds of intelligence operatives were unable to pinpoint Karadžic's whereabouts.
To make up for the failure, NATO and EU peacekeepers engaged in theatrical, pointless raids on the Karadžic? family home in the ski resort of Pale, outside Sarajevo; there are some truly farcical scenes in this book, written by the BBC's correspondent in Bosnia and Serbia.
Karadžic was finally arrested in 2008 on a city bus in Belgrade, where he had been living under an assumed identity.
By Nick Hawton(240 pages)
Hutchinson, €15
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