Neither America nor France has yet been willing to engage in the arrest of war-crimes suspects, though America provided helicopters for the Prijedor raids.
The raid came a week after Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, accused Bosnia, along with Croatia and Serbia, before the Security Council of a lack of cooperation, especially regarding the arrests of war crimes suspects.
The NATO-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia is mandated to make arrests of war crimes suspects, but because of concerns for the safety of its own troops, and fears of setting off a popular revolt, it has not moved against the two former leaders.
The arrest of indicted war crimes suspects -- prime among them Dr. Karadzic, still believed to be in hiding in Bosnia, but also dozens of less prominent men -- is another glaring failure of foreign and local forces.
Still, the question remained whether the harm the Goldstone report caused — the ammunition it gave to those who view Israel as a pariah state and question its right to exist; the campaigns that have stopped some Israeli officials from traveling abroad for fear of arrest for war crimes — could be undone.
Pro-Palestinian activists have threatened Israeli officials with arrest on allegations of war crimes against Palestinians, causing several officials to cancel plans to visit Britain.
Various memoirs tell how Mr. Clinton yielded to the military's warnings of unacceptable casualty levels and decided against using American forces to arrest people accused of war crimes in the Balkans in the mid-1990's.
In December 2009 a London court issued a warrant – later withdrawn – for her arrest on suspicion of war crimes, prompting a diplomatic row and calls for a change in British legislation.
Last week, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Mr. Bashir's arrest on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the conflict in Darfur, in which hundreds of thousands of people have died from violence, hunger and disease since 2003.
EL FASHER, Sudan (AP) — President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan threatened on Sunday to kick out more aid groups and expel diplomats and peacekeepers on his first trip to Darfur since the International Criminal Court ordered his arrest on charges of war crimes.
