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AMSTERDAM -Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic demanded yesterday that former U. S. peace mediator Richard Holbrooke and former secretary of state Madeleine Albright appear at the UN war crimes tribunal to back his claims Washington offered him immunity. Mr. Karadzic, who was transferred to The Hague last week to face war crimes and genocide charges after 11 years on the run, challenged the legality of the case against him. In a court filing, he repeated his claims that in 1996 Mr. Holbrooke said he would be shielded from the tribunal if he disappeared from public life. He added when Mr. Holbrooke realized he could not persuade the court's chief prosecutor to drop the indictment he decided to "liquidate" him instead.

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