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U.S., Serbia Identify Death Threat Sender
Belgrade | 16 December 2009 | Bojana Barlovac
Serbian police (archive)
The person who has been sending threatening messages to Serbian officials involved in the location and capture of indicted war criminals has been identified in a joint action carried out by Serbian and US police.
In an interview with broadcaster B92, the head of Serbia's police Milorad Veljovic confirmed the news but couldn't reveal the individual's identity."It is a person who has the citizenship of the Republic of Serbia; it is known who that person is and where (that person) is, but due to the investigation and agreement between the two countries' ministries of justice, I will not disclose any other details," the broadcaster quoted Veljovic as saying.
Serbia's war crimes prosecution on Monday received fresh death threats addressed to the country's President Boris Tadic and the two heads of Serbia's team in charge of locating and arresting war crime suspects, Vladimir Vukcevic and Rasim Ljajic.
The letters signed "black eagle", "kondorov jump" and "Serbian liberation movement of Illinois" were suspected to have come from America.
Ljajic pointed out that these are not the first threatening letters he has received. "We can conclude that (the letters) were written by the same people and were sent from the same address from the same country," he said.
It is now up to the justice ministries of the two countries to decide whether the proceedings will be conducted in the US or whether the person will be deported to Serbia, Veljovic said.
