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Radovan Karadzic site was a hoax

Radovan Karadzic site was a hoax

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If it's on the Web, it must be true - right? Well, most of the time, but it seems that a Web site - www.dragandabic.com - that was used by several TV channels and newspapers as a resource on the healing life of the alter-ego adopted by Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader who was arrested late last week, was a fake.According to the International Herald Tribune, anyone tracing the site would have found that it was registered after Karadzic was arrested ast week on...



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