In pictures of him recently captured, with long white beard and hair, there is some strange thing on his head . What is it? Is it his hair in a topknot? Supposedly he had been practicing “alternative medicine” – was it something related to that?
Looks like simply the last remaining vestige of hair color.
Really? It looks like a big bump to me.
The price tag?
I think it’s a wick.
Looks like a pony tail or something for his hair.
From the Guardian:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/23/radovankaradzic.warcrimes2?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
D’you think he’ll shave off the beard now he’s been caught or will he try and pretend he grew it for aesthetic reasons?
I’ve been asking myself the same question as the OP, so thanks to Vetch for providing the answer and some very interesting reading. That knot makes him look like a new-age guru, which I guess was the whole idea.
Actually, I’m surprised at how “typical” Karadzic’s disguise was. If you ask a random person what they would do if they suddenly found themselves an internationally wanted fugitive and didn’t want to be recognized, the first thing they’d say is probably that they’d grow a beard and started wearing glasses (if they are currently an unbearded male without glasses). Well, that’s exactly what Karadzic did (plus the new hairstyle and the hat), and it really made him almost unrecognizable. Maybe the Serbian government had some idea where he was and what he was doing, but the average citizen of Belgrade wouldn’t have had any idea it was him.
Now that the question’s been mostly answered, can I append a different general question about Karadzic to the thread? For some reason I’ve been asking myself if Karadzic is a citizen of Serbia. He’s apparently born in Montenegro, and spent most of his adult life in Bosnia before being going in hiding. But he’s an ethnic Serb, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Serbia’s citizenship law was strongly tied to ethnicity, so maybe he is a citizen of the country after all. I guess his alter ego is, but fraudulently, so I don’t think it counts. Does anyone know?
I gotta say, that is the biggest 'stash I seen since Gimli, Son of Glóin.
From your very link:
As an alternative medicine guru, it might have been an intentional look
BTW, I find it amazing that not only was he living in the open, he was giving public lectures and distributing them on videotape.
It’s the Turd of Death
Completely unrelated to the OP, but when I first saw his picture plastered over the BBC News website I wondered why they were making such a big deal out of finally catching the Archbishop of Canterbury…
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Serbia and Montenegro were once ruled by different royal families, but they are both ethnically Serb. Last I heard, they were still unified. I would imagine his passport reads “Yugoslavia” on it.
Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore. Does anyone honor their passports?
Serbia and Montenegro are actually not unified anymore; Montenegro became independent in 2006. I’m sure Karadzic’s last valid passport described him as a citizen of Yugoslavia, but as said, Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore. I’m wondering what country (if any) he’s a citizen of now.