Clearly, there are senior members of the Serb military and secret services that have known where Mladic was, but I honestly think that was not the case for Tadic and his senior advisors.
The nutters have also come out. Here's Boris Aleksic of the Serbian Radical Party:
Serb traitors have arrested a Serb hero. This shameful arrest of a Serb general is a blow to our national interests and the state. This is a regime of liars, dirty, corrupt and treacherous, a regime operated by the secret police."
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