Karadzic hid out as a practitioner of "alternative medicine"

[YankeyMCC]

...hmmm...could it be there a connection with him being able to hide in nearly plain site among people seeking out treatment via "alternative medicine"

I mean perhaps there was more to his success in evading capture but part of his hiding out had to involve the everyday people he came into contact with not recognizing him and believing his cover story. ;)

[TZ]

1. I wonder what he gave as his credentials...

He is really good at killing people so maybe...Seriously..thats very ironic..a mass murder/war criminal hiding out as a healer..kind of proves the point that anyone can be an altie....

[madinmaryland]

2. I would imagine that there were a lot of people covering for him,

that actually supported the man. The fact the he could practice medicine, just goes to show there are gullible people worldwide.

:shrug:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

3. There's some detailed backstory in this Guardian article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/23/radovankaradzic.warcrimes2

"...At some point in the past few years, it is clear that life became too anonymous for Karadzic to bear. The former Bosnian Serb leader had always been a showman, a dapper dresser with bouffant hair, an amateur poet who loved to read his work aloud at literary salons in pre-war Sarajevo.

In his life as Dragan David Dabic, he began to seek a new audience for his musings on alternative medicine. He built on his training as a psychiatrist and embellished it with oriental-inspired theories of "the life force", "vital energies" and "personal auras". He told people his plaited top-knot drew in different energies from the environment.

As Dabic, he set up a website called Psy Help Energy which advertised the David Wellbeing Programme which offered help from "experienced experts from pioneering areas of science where there are immense possibilities for interaction with natural forces in and around us".

Among other services offered were acupuncture, homeopathy, "quantum medicine" and traditional cures. He also sold necklaces he called Velbing (wellbeing): lucky charms which he claimed offered health benefits and "personal protection" against "harmful radiation". The website provided no address, and the two numbers it listed were prepaid mobile numbers, now no longer functioning..."

[CreekDog]

4. Just to be clear to this group

it was NOT the worst thing he has done. :hide: :rofl: