(26 Aug 2003)
Pale, Republika Srpska
1. Wide shot of Pale
2. Road sign saying 'Welcome to Pale'
3. SFOR humvee on street
4. Soldier in turret of humvee
5. Italian MSU (Multi-national Specialised Unit) troops in front of Karadzic's daughter's house, pans to US troops in front of humvee on other side of road
6. More Italian MSU and US troops outside practice
7. Close up machine gun
8. US soldier patrolling street, comes up to Italians and talks to them
9. Various of troops on the streets
Sarajevo, Bosnia
10. Wide shot SFOR news conference
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain Dale MacEachern, SFOR spokesman
"These operations are regular presence patrols and they fall within the standard spectrum of SFOR operations. SFOR regrets any inconvenience that these operations cause honest, law abiding citizens of Bosnia Herzegovina. However, we would like to point out that these types of operations are necessary in order to disrupt the activities of persons conducting in anti-Dayton activities. Therefore the root cause of any inconvenience suffered by honest law abiding citizens, are persons conducting anti-Dayton activities."
Pale, Republika Srpska
12. Troops in street
STORYLINE:
NATO troops in Bosnia gathered around the home of the daughter of Radovan Karadzic, the No. 1 war crimes fugitive wanted by the UN tribunal for the Balkans conflicts.
A spokesman for the peacekeeping force SFOR, Captain Dale MacEachern would only say the operation under way was "necessary in order to disrupt the activities of persons conducting anti-Dayton activities".
The 1995 Dayton peace accords ended Bosnia's three and a half year war, which killed 250-thousand people and made refugees of 1.8 million others.
It was not immediately clear whether the troops were attempting to arrest Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime leader, or those who might be helping him elude justice.
SFOR troops fanned out across Pale, Karadzic's wartime headquarters 16 kilometres (10 miles) northeast of Sarajevo, but were not seen entering any buildings.
US, French and Italian peacekeepers began gathering at about 10 a.m. (0800 GMT) around the home of Sonja Karadzic in Pale.
Others patrolled the town, stopping at various intersections and outside some homes in Pale's wealthier neighbourhoods.
At one point, soldiers also stopped briefly in front of the private medical practice of Karadzic's wife, Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic.
A spokesman for the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry, Zoran Glusac, said he had no information about the nature of the operation.
NATO-led peacekeepers have conducted numerous raids and other operations in recent months aimed at tightening the noose around Karadzic. The assets of several people who have been suspected of supporting his network have been frozen.
Karadzic and his wartime military chief, Gen. Ratko Mladic, were indicted in 1995 for genocide and crimes against humanity committed against Bosnia's non-Serb population. Both have been in hiding.
The most infamous atrocity in the UN indictment against Karadzic is the July 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, a UN "safe haven" for Muslim refugees.
The enclave was overrun by Serbs who separated the men and boys, forced them to strip, executed up to 8,000 and bulldozed their bodies into mass graves.
Women and children also were raped and killed in several days of bloodletting.
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