(Originally posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 )
After nearly 13 years of hiding, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a fugitive from justice after being indicted for war crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovnia in 1995, was apprehended by Serbian authorities on July 21. For much of his time underground, Mr. Karadzic assumed a variety of disguises that allowed him to wander freely in Belgrade. When he was caught, he was known as Dragan Dabic, a long-haired practitioner of alternative medicine who gave lectures at community centers and was very interested in beefing up his Web page.
What other people has Dr. Karadzic pretended to be while underground?
–*Ljuba Dabic, a communist sanitation worker who was enamored of the functionalist architectural aesthetic of Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson and who liked to woo women by playing them “Stairway to Heaven.”
–*Milovan Ljajic, an oncologist with a history of impotence problems and a love of the film “When Harry Met Sally.”
–*Vuk Vukcevic, organist with the philharmonic who has a slight proclivity toward the atonal serial music of Arnold Schoenberg and who had carefully cultivated a legend in Belgrade social circles of having an enormous dick.
–*Rudjer Mladic, a post-op transsexual who has not hidden his desire to be the first Bosnian-Serb nationalist male to carry a child. He likes gardening and staring into his Victorian reflecting ball.
–*Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, the Grand Duchess of Russia
–*Nelson Judd, a country and western singer from Frankfort, Kentucky who sings unabashadly of his love of America and freedom in the song, “This Conflict.” He may have been married to actress Renee Zellweger.
–*Blaze Starr, a retired American stripper and owner of Baltimore’s “Two O’Clock Club.”
–*Anders Bendtsen, a Danish base-jumper who likes to take a lot of acid and jump off outcroppings.
–*Mysterious Icelandic rock band Sigur Ros
–*Bald, fat psychedlic rock recluse Syd Barrett
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