Here’s what the Butcher of Sarajevo looks like nowadays.

Rumor has it the Wendt Foundation is paying him $1,000,000 to fight a casino in downtown Buffalo.

But seriously,

Karadzic used false documents with the name Dragan Dabic,” said Rasim Ljajic, the minister in charge of cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

He had been posing as a doctor of alternative medicine, sporting long hair, a beard and glasses to hide his face.

A picture shown to reporters showed an unrecognisable Karadzic, markedly thin, with a long white beard and flowing hair. Serbian officials said he was walking freely around town and earned money from practising medicine.

They said they could not divulge more details because it might jeopardise efforts to arrest two other war crime suspects on the run.

Practicing alternative medicine, more specifically.

Karadzic “was questioned overnight, his identity was established and he was given the indictment” of the ICTY, Mr Vukcevic said.

“An examining magistrate, I am aware, has already brought a decision that all conditions have been met for his transfer to The Hague.”

Political leaders in Europe and the US congratulated the Serbian government on managing to detain Karadzic after 13 years on the run.

Richard Holbrooke, the US diplomat who brokered the Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia in 1995, described his arrest as “a historic day”.

He said: “One of the worst men in the world, the Osama bin Laden of Europe, has finally been captured.

“A major, major thug has been removed from the public scene.”

David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, described his capture as “good news”, saying it would “pave the way for a brighter, European future for Serbia and the region”.

Mr Holbrooke said it was “significant” that the Serbian authorities had succeeded where Nato had failed.

The White House also congratulated the Serbian government on the arrest.

“The timing of the arrest, only days after the commemoration of the massacre of over 7,000 Bosnians committed in Srebrenica, is particularly appropriate, as there is no better tribute to the victims of the war’s atrocities than bringing their perpetrators to justice,” the White House Press Secretary said.

Karadzic was reportedly arrested just after 11pm, after police swarmed the exclusive central Belgrade neighbourhood of Vracar, one of the city’s oldest

UPDATE: Apparently, Karadzic was quite open about his alternative medicine bullshit. He appeared at several symposia:

Karadzic’s pseudonym was “Dragan David Dabi?”.

Here’s his business card:

And, courtesy of this blog, here is a link to Karadzic’s business’ website, which features the “David Wellbeing Program”.

At the bottom of the webpage is the email address: dddavid@psy-help-energy.com. That is Karadzic’s private email address.

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