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On the night that Tesanovic and I visited, the little room was filled with a dozen menacing figures: an old soldier in a beret and scarf with a limp; a man with jet-black hair, one tooth and the long face of Syria’s Hafez al-Assad; and another man so drunk that his side-turned face lighted by a smoldering cigarette in his lips floated improbably a few inches above a table. The bartender looked like a snarling Tim Roth, and one hypersuspicious guy in a voluminous army-green jacket squinted an eye shut like an old pirate. When he heard I was an American, he fixed his gimlet eye on me for two uninterrupted hours.
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Radovan Karadzic’s New Age Adventure, Jack Hitt, NYT Magazine. Finally got around to reading this.
Have long wanted more details on how this war criminal was able to live several years, undetected, as a “healer”, in some cases mere steps away from his pursuers. This article doesn’t answer all of my questions, but it’s incredibly fascinating. RECOMMENDED.
