(10 Feb 2007) SHOTLIST
1. NATO (Italian Carabinieri) vehicles parked outside house of Radomir Kojic
2. Exterior of property with Italian NATO soldiers outside
3. NATO vehicle outside house
4. Various of Italian troops on property
5. Pan of NATO vehicle
6. Police vehicle arriving at house
7. SOUNBITE (English with Bosnian translation) Derek Chappel, spokesman for NATO in Bosnia.
"NATO was here in Pale this morning to conduct an operation at the home of Radomir Kojic. (Bosnian translation follows). We believe that Mr Kojic is associated with the criminal support network that supports Radovan Karadzic. (Bosnian translation follows). With us here today, as part of this operation, we have ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) investigators and elements of EUFOR (European Union Force in Bosnia and Herzogovina). (Bosnian translation follows). We entered the house at about six o'clock this morning. There was no resistance. The people inside are fully cooperative. (Bosnian translation follows). We are now conducting a very thorough, very detailed search of the entire house."
8. Various of NATO vehicles and troops in front of the house
STORYLINE
NATO troops and a local Bosnian law enforcement agency on Saturday searched the home of an alleged supporter of war-crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic.
About 10 NATO vehicles were seen surrounding a house in Pale, 15 kilometres (9 miles) east of Sarajevo.
"NATO was here in Pale this morning to conduct an operation at the home of Radomir Kojic. We believe Mr Kojic is associated with the criminal support network that supports Radovan Karadzic," said Derek Chappel, the spokesman for NATO in Bosnia.
The NATO troops were joined by Bosnia's special police, Chappel said, adding that any evidence found would be handed over to Bosnian investigators, although investigators from the UN international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, were also present at the site.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, along with his former general Ratko Mladic, tops the list of suspects wanted for alleged war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia.
Both were indicted in 1995 by the UN war crimes tribunal for genocide and other crimes, but they remain at large thanks to a network of supporters who keep financing and otherwise facilitating their hiding.
Mladic is believed to be hiding in Serbia, while for some time nobody has been sure where Karadzic is hiding.
Both Bosnia and Serbia last year joined NATO's programme Partnership for Peace, which is seen as a step toward full NATO membership.
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