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...Even if authorities do ultimately arrest the suspects in custody, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to bring to justice everyone responsible for the bombing. "A professional terrorist operation is usually compartmentalized," explains TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "Many of those involved have no idea of the identity of the people on either side of them in the chain, let alone of the author of the attack...
Washington is playing down the significance of Tanzania's arrest of 30 people in connection with Friday's bomb attack. "The State Department isn't setting too much store by these arrests because the attacks were clearly carried out by professional terrorists," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "They'd have had an escape plan rather than be waiting around to be arrested...
...what a Tanzanian police spokesman called "dubious characters" may even be motivated by the government's concern too nip in the bud any signs of Islamic militancy. "It appears the Tanzanians have had these people under surveillance for some time and are using the bombing as a pretext to arrest them," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. A Tanzanian official's statement that "we cannot say we have got somebody who is really responsible" but "we think we are doing well" underlines the grounds for skepticism. U.S. investigators continue to probe for the forensic evidence crucial to establishing a "fingerprint" modus...
Clinton had heard this argument before. On Nov. 22, the day after the Dayton talks ended, the U.S. President had met with his advisers in the White House to assess the agreement. With his characteristic verve, Holbrooke had urged that Karadzic and Mladic be arrested and tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. But the rules of engagement specified that peacekeepers could arrest suspects only if they "happened" upon them. It was an ambiguity that allowed Karadzic to drive unmolested through several NATO checkpoints after Dayton...
...running from eastern Bosnia south toward the Adriatic. "He's here," says Bozidar Vucurevic, formerly of Karadzic's Serb Democratic Party in the region, "And he's defended not by any special troops but by the people." Says a local party member: "It's not easy to make an arrest in Herzegovina. We're not cowards. It wouldn't happen without consequences...