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Serbian leader once tried to assassinate UEFA president


Former warlord sent henchmen to spray meddling UEFA-crat with bullets. Gulp!

Arkan

The Serbian television station B92 has reported that the late Serbian psychopath and terrorist Arkan, who was wanted for war crimes by the International Tribunal in the Hague when he was himself shot dead in 1999, should have had another charge added to his record of infamy: the attempted assassination of former UEFA President Lennart Johansson.

In 1998, Arkan, real name Zeljko Raznatovic, liked to wind down from spreading terror throughout the Balkans by spreading terror through Serbian football as owner of FC Obilic. Indeed, so successful was his campaign of intimidation, which involved tricks such as locking opposition players in a garage when Obilic came to town, that his side qualified for

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Posted: January 24th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey