IVANKOVIC AGAIN CLAIMS SFOR DOCUMENT ON GOTOVINA IS NOT FAKE

ZAGREB, April 11 (Hina) - The president of the HONOS association for the protection of Homeland War values, Nenad Ivankovic, on Thursday claimed that he had evidence proving the authenticity of Stabilisation Force (SFOR) documents which note that the Croatian authorities, assisted by intelligence services, wish to implement an "operation not only to arrest but liquidate General Gotovina". #L# HONOS released the alleged SFOR document at a press conference on January 29. However, the same day the authenticity of the document was disputed by the Croatian government's spokeswoman and SFOR, the president of the parliamentary Committee for Internal Affairs and National Security, Djurdja Adlesic, and the former head of the Office for National Security (UNS), Tomislav Karamarko. On Thursday, Ivankovic presented journalists with an alleged letter that Karamarko forwarded to President Stjepan Mesic after conducting an inspection of the SFOR document. In the letter, Ivankovic claims, there is evidence that the SFOR document is authentic. The date, registry number and other indicators have been removed from the "Karamarko letter" that Ivankovic allegedly received in the post. This was obviously done so the sender could not be disclosed, said Ivankovic. Copies handed over to journalists carry Karamarko's alleged signature although just barely visible. Karamarko told Hina that the letter Ivankovic presented today was a forgery and that he never forwarded any such letter to President Mesic. He said that UNS never dealt with the question of General Ante Gotovina, an indictee of the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague, and that the Croatian Intelligence Service (HIS) had in fact inspected the contentious SFOR document. "That service sent a report indicating that the document was falsified to several state officials, including myself", Karamarko said. (hina) sp sb