http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7521993.stm
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Dramatic ironies of Karadzic arrest
By Nick Thorpe
BBC News, Belgrade
"Slobodan Milosevic must be laughing in his grave," said Zarko Korac, a parliamentary deputy of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Radovan Karadzic in disguise as Dragan Dabic
Mr Karadzic was posing as a master of alternative medicine in Belgrade
"Karadzic, Milosevic's old henchman in Bosnia, arrested by a socialist interior minister, during the term in office of a president who was elected by playing with nationalist politics."
The irony of the dramatic events of the past days appeals to the dark humour of many Serbs.
Karadzic the psychiatrist, posing as a master of alternative medicine.
Karadzic the gambler, who used to brood over the roulette wheel in the gloomy ground floor casino of the Hotel Metropol in Belgrade to escape the grim monotony of his war in Bosnia, gambling that no-one would think of looking for him in the Pinoccio Pizzeria in the Serbian capital.
An arrest which only a handful of people close to President Boris Tadic, and the new head of Serbian Intelligence Sasa Vukadinovic knew was coming.
Shadowy forces
"Tadic will go down in history as the Serbian leader who arrested the Serbian hero - Karadzic," Mr Korac continues, ironically. But he is confident that Mr Tadic will survive.
"This is a huge step forward for Serbia - the most important since the arrest of Milosevic in 2001."
It reflects, he says, the ebbing power of the military in public life, the network of over 600 retired generals and admirals who pulled the strings behind the scenes for so long, and the networks in the police and intelligence services who clung to the ideology and privileges of the Milosevic era.