In this file picture taken on January 22, 2009 Richard Holbrooke, US President Barack Obama's newly named Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, listens during an announcement at the State Department in Washington, DC. Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic filed on May 25, 2009 claimed to have witnesses to Holbrooke's promise of immunity in return for his disappearing from the public eye. Currently, UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is trying Karadzic on 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in Bosnia's 1992-1995 war. Getty Images logo Getty Images 6 months ago

In this file picture taken on January 22, 2009 Richard Holbrooke, US President Barack Obama's newly named Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, listens during an announcement at the State Department in Washington, DC. Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic filed on May 25, 2009 claimed to have witnesses to Holbrooke's promise of immunity in return for his disappearing from the public eye. Currently, UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is trying Karadzic on 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.

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  3. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
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  7. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 18: U.S. General Stanley McChrystal (L), head of the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, arrives at the Kabul International airport before the arrival of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on November 18, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. This is her first trip to Afghanistan as U.S Secretary of State. Clinton will meet with Afghan President Karzai before he officially starts his second term of office.
  8. RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - U.S. special representative Richard Holbrooke falls backwards after losing his balance when he entered a tent to meet an internally displaced family at the Shah Mansoor camp in Swabi, about 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, June 4, 2009. Holbrooke urged European and Muslim nations on Thursday to help families who have fled the conflict in Pakistan's Swat valley and avert a humanitarian crisis.
  9. US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke talks to the media after his meeting with EU officials, at the European Counsill building in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec.2, 2009.
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  12. Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, speaks with journalists after a meeting at the European Council headquarters in Brussels December 2, 2009.
  13. People walk past a life-size picture of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in the centre of Banja Luka November 21, 2009, which has been put up to commemorate St. Arhangel Mihailo's Day. St. Arhangel Mihailo is the slava, or patron saint, of Karadzic's family. Karadzic was indicted over episodes including the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo that began in 1992 and the genocide of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
  14. People pose with a life-size picture of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in the centre of Banja Luka November 21, 2009, which has been put up to commemorate St. Arhangel Mihailo's Day. St. Arhangel Mihailo is the slava, or patron saint, of Karadzic's family. Karadzic was indicted over episodes including the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo that began in 1992 and the genocide of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
  15. Mirsad Tokaca, director of the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Centre, presents an atlas of war crimes that took place during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, that includes 50,000 geographic points where war activities took place, accompanied with photos and video-clips of the events, in Sarajevo November 3, 2009. Tokaca said the atlas aimed to help people learn about facts from the war to better face and understand the recent past. The Bosnian war crimes atlas, available on the website www.idc.org.ba, was launched on the same day when the mastermind of the Bosnian war, Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic, appeared before the Hague war crimes court temporarily giving up the boycott of his trial.
  16. Television sets braodcasts a live transmission of the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (UP) during his first court appearance since the start of his genocide trial at International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in a coffee shop in Sarajevo, on November 3, 2009. Karadzic has refused to leave his jail cell since the trial started on October 26, saying he needs more time to review more than a million pages of prosecution evidence and the statements of hundreds of witnesses. He is charged with 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1992-95 Bosnian war that claimed some 100,000 lives and caused 2.2 million people to flee their homes.

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