Karadzic's secret life enthralls his fellow Serbs (AP)

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writers 3 minutes ago BELGRADE, Serbia - Radovan Karadzic sent word he plans to defend himself against U.N. genocide charges, but his fellow Serbs were more enthralled with details that emerged Wednesday about his secret life: a mistress, a bogus family in the U.S., and regular visits to the Madhouse bar and its photo of his beardless days as wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs. With U.N. officials predicting Karadzic would be handed to the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the next week, an attorney said the prisoner would handle his own defense, just like his former mentor, the late Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who died in 2006 while on trial. Karadzic will do it looking like his old self, without the bushy white beard and long gray hair that... [read full story]