Karadzic photos emerge ahead of first court appearance

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

THE HAGUE (AFP) — Photos of a thin, seemingly relaxed Radovan Karadzic, minus the beard and long hair he used to avoid detection, emerged Thursday hours before his first appearance in a UN court on genocide charges.

The former Bosnian Serb wartime leader was pictured in the Serbian Blic newspaper, looking at the camera and casually dressed in a light blue T-shirt bearing a small emblem of the US flag.

"It is him!" said the front-page headline of the daily, which said the picture was taken just prior to his transfer Wednesday from Belgrade to the UN war crimes court in The Hague, where he is indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The 63-year-old was to be brought before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...