Chirac 'in secret deal with Serb general'

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$ZEO2TFNMQJ5A5QFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2003/07/11/wkos11.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/07/11/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=390729

Why haven't I seen this reported in any of the big News stations? Not on CNN, Faux, the Washingtonpost, or nothing!

On Edit: Fixing the link . . . okay well, I can't get the link to work. Argh!! But the gist is . . . well here's part:

President Jacques Chirac negotiated a secret deal to protect Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general accused of Europe's worst atrocities since the Second World War, according to evidence submitted to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

M Chirac allegedly agreed to sabotage the extradition of Gen Mladic to face genocide charges for his role in the planned extermination of Bosnian Muslims, including the massacre of 7,000 men and boys in the UN safe haven of Srebrenica in July 1995.

In exchange, Gen Mladic handed over two French pilots held hostage for 14 weeks by his forces after their Mirage fighter jet was shot down outside Sarajevo.