July 28, 2008
How one careless phone call ended Radovan Karadzic’s liberty
Radovan Karadzic, 63, wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs and one of the most wanted men in the world since 1996 was finally caught in a suburb of Belgrade because of one careless phone call he made to his family. The Times Online reports.
"For nearly 13 years, Serbian and international security services had tapped the telephones of his family, relatives and friends and routinely raided their homes and took them in for questioning as part of a campaign to locate Europe’s most wanted man. That would have been no secret to Karadzic, who had a $5m bounty on his head.
He appears, however, to have become complacent after years in his new skin. At some time in June, according to two Serbian security sources, a telephone call from a mobile number in Belgrade was monitored on the tapped line of one of his relatives. The number was traced to a new age doctor, Dr Dragan David Dabic, living in a small rented apartment in New Belgrade. "
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