(27 May 2011)
DOS TV
Washington, DC - 26 May 2011
1. Wide of US State Department Spokesman Mark Toner at podium
2. Cutaway of reporter asking a question
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Toner, US State Department Spokesman:
"This is obviously a good thing for Serbia, dealing with this terrible scourge from its past. It's obviously been a high priority for the international community and for the US government since his indictment in 1995. As I just said, and the secretary said in her statement, this is also a warning to all those around the globe who would target innocent civilians that there is no place to hide."
4. Cutaway of reporters
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Toner, US State Department Spokesman:
"To those who have suffered from his terrible crimes, including the genocide at Srebrenica, this hopefully provides them with some level of closure. And, again, I think it's just important that Serbia has dealt with this individual, and it shows their seriousness about European integration."
6. Wide of Toner at podium
AP Television
Pinehurst, North Carolina - 26 May 2011
7. Pan from model aircraft carrier to Admiral Leighton Smith, former commander of Allied Forces Southern Europe
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Admiral Leighton Smith, US Navy, formerly Commander of Allied Forces Southern Europe:
"I think it's absolutely wonderful that he's been captured. There are a lot of people in this world that have been waiting for this day. He will be brought to justice, and in some way, shape, or form, that may cause some people to come to closure. I'm not sure what closure would be, but hopefully this will lead to an opening of dialogue that might lead to a more peaceful situation in Bosnia."
9. Pan up from papers to Smith
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Admiral Leighton Smith, US Navy, formerly Commander of Allied Forces Southern Europe:
"Mladic was a butcher. He was a terrible, terrible person. He had no conscience, no morals, no nothing. How can you possibly think of someone as being a reasonable human being that would go slaughter 6,000 to 8,000 individuals and bury them in open pits in a field somewhere? That's not to mention how they ran their detention camps and how they routed up other people in Bosnia, burned their houses down, blew their houses up, killed and raped women, killed and raped children. He was just a horrible human being."
11. Smith shuffling papers
STORYLINE:
US officials have shown support for the arrest of Bosnian Serb fugitive Ratko Mladic, and a spokesman from the US State Department called it "a good thing for Serbia."
The Serbian government arrested Mladic early on Thursday morning some 16 years after he was indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, on genocide charges.
Mladic will stand trial for orchestrating the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.
US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Thursday that the arrest of Mladic allowed Serbia to deal with "this terrible scourge from its past," and that it would hopefully provide his victims with some closure.
He said Mladic's arrest had "obviously been a high priority for the international community and for the US government since his indictment in 1995."
The US State Department had offered a 5 million US dollar bounty for Mladic's capture, on top of the 10 million euro (14 million US dollar) reward from the Serbian government.
Toner added that the arrest by Serbian forces showed Serbia's "seriousness about European integration."
The arrest releases Serbia from widespread suspicion that it was protecting Mladic.

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