MAGAZINE: WAR CRIMINAL MLADIC PROTECTED BY 300 ARMED MEN

BELGRADE, Nov 26 (Hina) - The security of an ICTY indictee, Bosnian Serb war-time commander General Ratko Mladic, is almost perfect, consisting of about 300 persons with up-to-date arms, read an article in the Belgrade-based magazine "Reporter". #L# According to the magazine, Mladic, wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal, never goes to the same places, and is the only one deciding about his movements. He incessantly changes security guards who are in his vicinity. One can believe Yugoslav army officers when they say that the army does not directly protect this notorious war criminal. But it should not be ruled out that a significant number of professional soldiers are helping him either indirectly or by offering some information, because of friendship, political views or other reasons, the magazine asserted. It also cited a military intelligence source as saying that during the withdrawal of the Yugoslav Army from Kosovo in 1999, a whole arsenal of arms was transferred to be in the function of Mladic's security. (hina) ms sb