Jul 23, 2008
Story Timeline: 81 days
A mistress, a bogus family he said he left in the U.S., and regular visits to a bar called "The Madhouse" where he sipped wine under a picture of himself in his heyday — these were among the details to emerge Wednesday about Radovan Karadzic's secret life. Since his arrest Monday, Serbs have been enthralled by the former Bosnian Serb leader's transformation from a suit-and-tie politician who led Bosnian Serbs into their country's ethnic bloodletting into a long-haired health guru most never imagined was living in their midst. Genocide charges against him, and his upcoming extradition to the U.N. war crimes court, have taken a back burner to every new revelation. Karadzic's metamorphosis was so complete that many of his neighbors say they're struggling to comprehend how the friendly man they knew as Dr. Dragan David Dabic was...
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