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In Serbian.(RTS) 080802IntheNews.co.uk/Blic.rs - A Serbian newspaper has backed Radovan Karadzic's claim he signed a deal with US authorities to evade indictment over war crimes charges. Blic cited an unnamed US intelligence official as saying that a deal existed until 2000 under which Mr Karadzic was told he would avoid being taken to court if he kept a low profile.Karadzic said to have met with Holbrooke in June 1996. Aleksa Buha and Momcilo Krajisnik were present on that occasion. They agreed that Karadzic should leave all functions and give up public appearances. In return he would not be looked for by the Hague Tribunal.'Holbrooke told me it was not an agreement with him or Clinton's administration but with the USA. An agreement was made and three people were to sign it -- me, Holbrooke and Milosevic. We sent the agreement to Milosevic but he has never returned it'.According to Blic, the alleged deal with Washington was called off once the CIA learnt that the politician was working to re-establish his Serbian Democratic party. Richard Holbrooke, the US official who negotiated the peace accord that ended the Bosnian war, said no such deal had ever been concluded.Pic: Kurir-info.rs