SARAJEVO DAILY: GOTOVINA IS HIDING IN HERZEGOVINA

SARAJEVO, Dec 10 (Hina) - Croatian General Ante Gotovina is currently in Bosnia-Herzegovina and hiding in the Siroki Brijeg region, Sarajevo's daily "Oslobodjenje" wrote in its Tuesday's issue. #L# Citing an anonymous source close to home intelligence services, the daily ran a front page story according to which General Gotovina was hiding in west Herzegovina. Agents of some Bosnian secret services have allegedly established that Gotovina, after whom an arrest warrant for war crimes charges had been issued by the U.N. war crimes tribunal, was spending most of his time in "an elite hotel in Siroki Brijeg" located near the Croatian border. "Gotovina's sympathisers are regularly gathering there. His bodyguards do not come out of the hotel," the source of the daily said. Only from time to time Gotovina is staying near the Blidinje Lake, namely, a private hotel whose owner is loyal to the Croatian general, the source said. Thank to the well-organised network of Gotovina's protectors and supporters, the general is allegedly capable of quickly hiding in case of a pursuit, either in Rama, Jablanica, Posusje or Siroki Brijeg, the daily said. "Oslobodjenje" reminded that Croatian media had on several occasions claimed that Gotovina was hiding in Herzegovina. The daily's source claims that a lack of political will was the exclusive reason for Gotovina's not being arrested yet. "Many people know when and where Gotovina is in Herzegovina and nobody is doing anything about it," the intelligence source of the Sarajevo daily claims. (hina) it