Bosnia-Herzogovina
1997 - 1998
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Rick and Emily were there at different times. Emily was on a fact-finding visit as a professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Rick was there as deputy chief of a joint CIA-DOD operations team to locate and arrest five Persons Indicted For War Crimes - more commonly called PIFWCs.
Sarajevo
As the sign says, welcome to Sarajevo
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Apartment building damage in Sarajevo
Heightened Sarajevo walls
Market in old Sarajevo
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Destruction in Sarajevo
High-rise apartment destruction in Sarajevo
Old Sarajevo
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Kids in what was "sniper alley" in Sarajevo
Emily in market area of Sarajevo
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Bazaar in Sarajevo
Emily with escorts at Sarajevo air base
Emily's business card
Sarajevo air base
Ethnic cleansing outside Sarajevo
Ethnic cleansing outside Sarajevo
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Emily in bazaar in Sarajevo
Sarajevo air base
She got her own jet!!
Scenic Sarajevo
Ethnic cleansing outside Sarajevo
Ethnic cleansing outside Sarajevo
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| On the hunt for our assigned five PIFWCs - we eventually got them all (plus one other who gave himself up) |
Tuzla air base - our own two helicopters
Serbian area
Outside Banja Luka - pretty shot up
Bridge over the Sava River at Brcko - Serbia on the other side.
A favorite PIFWC escape route
Serbian area
Tough way to grow up
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Serb equipment
Bosanski Samac - home of four of our PIFWCs
Blagoje Simic - serving sentence in UK until 2016
Stefan Todorovic - served 7 of 10 years, dead (no loss)
Miroslav Tadic - served 8 years, now out
Simo Zaric - served 6 years, now out
Milan Simic - (not one of our targets), served 5 years, now out
Serbian area
Brcko - home of the worst PIFWC Goran Jelisic
 Goran Jelisic - taken down by my team in January 1998.
Acquitted on the count of genocide but sentenced to 40 years in prison for crimes against humanity and for serious breaches of the laws and customs of war. |
Brcko
Tough way to grow up
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Not an uncommon scene on the roads near the Line of Demarcation betweeen Bosnian and Serb areas |
Central Tuzla
Ethnic cleansing outside Tuzla
Ethnic cleansing outside Tuzla
Ethnic cleansing outside Tuzla
Ethnic cleansing outside Tuzla
After the fighting - back to basics
Operations room - Tuzla
My room - Tuzla
SFOR identification
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Tuzla
Tuzla
Ethnic cleansing outside Tuzla
Ethnic cleansing outside Tuzla
Ethnic cleansing outside Tuzla
Ethnic cleansing outside Tuzla
Ethnic cleansing outside Tuzla
Operations room - Tuzla
US forces pass
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UPDATE - July 21, 2008
To the left is a bottle of Dingac (DING-gatch), a pleasant Croation wine that we were partial to during our stints in Bosnia. The joys of being assigned to the CIA station - no General Order Number One (the military prohibition on alcohol).
We brought a bottle home in 1998 with the hopes of toasting the imminent capture of Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian war criminal number one. While Rick's team was successful in capturing the lower level functionaries, Karadzic and his military cohort, General Ratko Mladic, managed to escape to Serbia.
Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade today. We opened the bottle and drank half.
Ratko Mladic is still at large.
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