Serbia Arrests Fired Chief Of Feared Secret Police Unit
Published: February 25, 2001  Signaling that Slobodan Milosevic
and other members of his circle may be detained soon, Serbia's
new government announced tonight that the police had arrested
the former president's feared secret police chief, Rade
Markovic, on suspicion of murder.  A former police chief of
Belgrade and two other men were also arrested today, Serbia's
justice minister, Vladan Batic, said at a news conference. He
stressed that the government was determined to arrest all
criminals, hinting that others might be detained soon.
Prosecutors ordered Mr. Markovic detained for his suspected
involvement in an assassination attempt on the opposition leader
Vuk Draskovic and associates, Mr. Batic said. He said there was
enough evidence to connect Mr. Markovic to an apparently
orchestrated car crash in October 1999 in which Mr. Draskovic's
brother-in-law and three bodyguards were killed.  The four men
were traveling in Mr. Draskovic's motorcade and die