Asked to comment on the said allegations, spokesman for the State Department Sean McCormack said at a regular press briefing on Friday that he had checked into information this with people here in the Department. "They've said absolutely false. The people have checked with Ambassador Holbrooke. He has told them absolutely false. The United States does not and will not stand aside and allow war criminals to escape the hands of justice. We continue to call for his being handed over to The Hague so that he can face justice for the crimes that he has committed," McCormack said.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is one of the most wanted men in the world.
Accused of leading the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats, he has twice been indicted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
The UN says his forces killed at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys from Srebrenica in July 1995 as part of a campaign to "terrorise and demoralise the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat population".
He was also charged over the shelling of Sarajevo, and the use of 284 UN peacekeepers as human shields in May and June 1995.