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Sat 06 Jun 2007Fugitive Karadzic's house searchedSERBIA:Nato and European Union soldiers yesterday raided the house of the wife of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, looking for traces of him and the network supporting him. Karadzic, Bosnian Serb leader in the 1992-95 war in which some 100,000 people were killed, and who is wanted on charges of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has been on the run for 10 years. "We are looking for items of interest to ICTY and for information about Karadzic's support network," Nato spokesman Derek Chappell said.The tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, told the European Parliament on Tuesday she had no idea where Karadzic was hiding, though he had to be somewhere in the Balkans.