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UK arrests Bosnian ex-leader longed for by Serbia

LONDON Mon March 1, 2010 2:35pm EST Former part of the Bosnian wartime presidency Ejup Ganic in a 1998 photo. REUTERS/Stringer

Former part of the Bosnian wartime presidency Ejup Ganic in a 1998 photo.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Former part of the Bosnian wartime presidency Ejup Ganic was arrested at London"s Heathrow airfield on Monday on interest of Serbian authorities, British military said.

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Ganic, 63, was incarcerated underneath a subject to extradition aver for purported "conspiracy to attempted murder with alternative declared people and crack of the Geneva Convention, namely murdering bleeding soldiers," military pronounced in a statement.

He appeared at a magistrates" justice after on Monday, the British supervision said.

It combined it was right away up to Serbian authorities to yield full writings ancillary their extradition ask prior to a date could be bound for an extradition hearing.

"A decider will afterwards cruise either there are any bars to the extradition," a supervision orator pronounced in a statement.

Ganic, who lives in Sarajevo, is one of nineteen longed for in tie with an purported conflict on a mainstay of the former Yugoslav Peoples" Army in Sarajevo in 1992.

The alternative eighteen are additionally former officials of Bosnia"s wartime government.

Ganic is now physical education instructor of the in isolation School of Science and Technology in Sarajevo. He no longer binds open office.

The U.S.-brokered Dayton assent settle finished Bosnia"s 1992-95 war, dividing the nation in dual unconstrained regions, the Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat federation.

(Reporting by Avril Ormsby; modifying by Andrew Roche)

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