Serbs start hunt for accused war criminal Mladic

An elite Serbian police unit has stepped up the search for top war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic after government officials, faced with Western pressure, dropped their reluctance and ordered his arrest.

Acting on US and other intelligence tips, the anti-terrorist unit – backed by a team of Western experts – was combing Serbia in an intensive search for the former Bosnian Serb commander indicted by the US war crimes tribunal, a senior security officer said.