Nato troops fail to capture Karadzic

Nato troops today failed in an apparent attempt to arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic after converging on a building in Pale, the stronghold of the world’s top war crimes suspect at large, amid bursts of gunfire and an explosion.

“We did not locate the person we were looking for,” said Captain Dave Sullivan of Canada, a spokesman for Bosnia’s Nato-led peacekeepers, speaking hours after the start of the pre-dawn raid.