Stolen Art Watch, Mladic Arrested, Serbian Govt Complicit !!

Tadić confirms that Mladić has been arrested

BELGRADE -- Serbian President Boris Tadić confirmed during a news conference in Belgrade that Hague fugitive Ratko Mladić has been arrested.

According to reports earlier in the day, the Serbian police arrested on Thursday a man going by the name of Milorad Komadić, who was suspected to be former VRS General Ratko Mladić.

B92 previously received confirmation that a man suspected to be Mladić was in custody.

The secret operation came after a tip-off that Komadić "possessed some identification documents of Ratko Mladić and was physically very similar to him", the Zagreb-based Jutarnji List reported earlier today.

The report did not mention the location where the arrest took place. B92 has unofficially learned that the operation took place in the village of Lazarevo, near the town of Zrenjanin in northern Serbia.

B92 contacted the police, but was told only that an identity check and a DNA analysis were "ongoing", and that a complete DNA analysis would take three days to complete.

The former military leader of Serbs in Bosnia is wanted by the Hague Tribunal on genocide and war crimes charges.

Timeline

1992 -- Karadzic opposes independent Bosnia. Bosnian Serbs declare a republic and lay siege to Sarajevo. Mladic gets command of the Bosnian Serb Army which overruns 70 percent of the country.

1993 -- Hundreds of civilians killed daily in siege of Sarajevo. War erupts between Muslims and Croats.

1994 -- Muslim-Croat war ends. U.S., British, French, German, and Russian "Contact Group" proposes carve-up of Bosnia. Bosnian Serbs reject it and Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic cuts off their aid for blocking a "fair" deal.

1995 -- In May, NATO bombs Karadzic bunker after Serbs ignore an ultimatum to stow their heavy weapons. Serbs shell a cafe in the U.N. safe area of Tuzla, killing 70.

July 11 - Mladic forces overrun "safe area" of Srebrenica. In the next 7 days, up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys killed in worst atrocity since World War Two.

July 24 - U.N. issues indictments against Karadzic and Mladic for genocide citing the siege of Sarajevo.

Aug. 5 - Serb shell hits a Sarajevo market, killing 37. NATO planes and U.N. artillery blast Serb targets in response.

Nov. 16 - U.N. war crimes tribunal again indicts Karadzic and Mladic, this time for genocide at Srebrenica.

Nov. 21 - Deal struck in Dayton, Ohio, gives Serbs half of Bosnia. They must cooperate with the U.N. war crimes court.

Dec. 5 - NATO allies agree to send in 60,000 peace troops.

2001 -- Milosevic, ousted in 2000, is handed over to U.N. Tribunal. Chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte starts a new campaign to demand Mladic and Karadzic be arrested.

2004 -- In January NATO and Bosnian Serb police search Pale on a tip that Karadzic needs medical help, but find nothing.

Dec. 16 - NATO says Mladic visited his wartime bunker in summer to celebrate Bosnian Serb Army day.

2005 -- Jan-May - A dozen Serbian generals, including several of Mladic's closest aides, surrender to The Hague to face trial.

December - Fugitive Croat Gen. Ante Gotovina is captured, redoubling pressure on Serbia to catch Mladic. The state warns that anyone aiding Mladic or his helpers will be prosecuted.

2006 -- Army intelligence issues a report revealing that Mladic had been using Serb army premises until mid 2002.

May -- After months of warnings, the European Union suspends talks with Serbia on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement, putting EU membership hopes on hold.

July -- Belgrade court indicts 10 people for helping Mladic hide from 2002 to January 2006. The investigation shows Mladic stayed mostly in the high-rise New Belgrade area of the capital.

2007 -- May-June - Under a new coalition government, the drought of handovers suddenly ends, with the arrest in Bosnia of wanted Mladic aide Zdravko Tolimir.

-- The EU resumes talks but warns Mladic is still wanted.

2008 -- Karadzic is arrested in Belgrade on July 21. Police say the bearded, grey and almost unrecognisable man had been living under a false identity, practising alternative medecine.

2010 -- Serbian police briefly detain Mladic's wife on June 10 and charge her with illegal possession of weapons.

June 16 - Mladic's family launch court proceedings to declare him dead on the grounds that he had been in poor health and they had had no contact with him for more than five years.

Oct. 28 - Serbia offers a 10 million euros reward for information leading to the arrest of Mladic, from $1 million.

Nov. 15 - Serbia is still not cooperating fully with the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the hunt for Mladic, the chief prosecutor says.

May 2011 Osama Bin Laden killed

May 2011 Angela Merkel squeezes Boris Tadic testicles, "Arrest Mladic or I'll send in KSK"

May 2011 - Mladic is arrested on May 26.

Art Hostage Comments:

Since the beginning of 2011 hundreds of millions of Euros and dollars have been flooding out of Serbia, Belgrade. The underworld were told by the Serbian govt they had until June 2011 to get their ill gotten gains out of Serbia or risk them being seized by Serbian authorities.

The final act was today when Mladic was arrested, having been under close scrutiny for a very long time.

Mafia godfathers from Italy, Montenegro, and all over Europe have been moving their cash to far away places such as Malaysia and Taiwan in order to avoid detection.

This development will no doubt speed up the entry to the EU, and all of the hundreds of millions of Euros in loans promised to Serbia once it cleaned up its act.

A further development is the outstanding stolen art taken early 2008 in two raids in Switzerland. First the two Picasso's on loan from Germany and second the Cezanne and Degas stolen from the Buhrle Museum.

Don't be surprised to hear of the stolen watches and high value jewellery in the possession of Mladic, given as a tribute by certain criminal elements.

More to follow.................

Breaking News..............

The KSK Kommando Spezialkräfte (Special Forces Command, KSK) Germany's version of the Brit SAS or U.S. Delta Force, have been on stand-by to go into Serbia and arrest or kill Mladic.

The Serbian Govt were left with no choice but to make the arrest themselves, therefore avoiding the embarrassment felt by the Pakistan govt over the Osama Bin Laden affair.

Angela Merkel gave Serbian Prime Minster Boris Tadic an ultimatum to arrest Mladic or she would send in the KSK to snatch him. Boris took the easy option and therefore Mladic is in custody.