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members left in cars, which the witness identified as MUP cars, because of the blue colour of
their license plates and the letter M. 4039 The witness later found out that the mission in
question was in Velika Kladuša and was also known as Operation Pauk. 4040 The witness
believed that the 19 November 1994 entry in the Pauk Command Operations logbook about
the arrival of 30 men for Legija, referred to the arrival of the SDG members dispatched from
the SDG headquarters in Belgrade. 4041 Borislav Pelević, a member of the SDG since 10
January 1992, 4042 testified that the SDG were re-activated when their instructors left for
Velika Kladusa in November 1994. 4043
1970. Witness JF-057 further testified that Arkan’s SDG members did not wear their Tiger
badges during the operation. 4044 Of the approximately 60 SDG members that took part in the
Velika Kladuša operation, the witness recalled the following: Milorad Ulemek a.k.a. Milorad
Luković or Legija, Ranko Poletan, Dušan Gajić, Dragan Petrović, a.k.a. Kajman, Boris Batez,
Saša Ašćerić, a.k.a. Asterix, Slobodan Stojančević, a.k.a. Laki, Saša Milaković, Nebojša
Ðorđević, Mihajlo Ulemek, Jovica Stojisavljević, Zoran Stojanović, Rade Rakonjac, Mladen
Šarac, Jugoslav Simić, Svetozar Pejović, Željko Stanivuković, Nebojša Stojiljković, Žarko
Aleksić, a.k.a. Marinac, Cica Pera, and Dimitrije Jašek, a.k.a. Mita and Jugoslav Mićić, a.k.a.
Juga (both killed during the operation). 4045 The Serbian DB also lost a high-ranking officer,
Kojić or Konjić, also referred to as “Kole”, in the Velika Kladuša operation. 4046
1971. Following their training at Mount Tara, the SDG, together with a group of members of
“Frenki’s men”, went to Velika Kladuša and trained Fikret Abdić’s men, and later also fought
along side them. 4047 During the Velika Kladuša operation, from which the SDG came back
sometime in August 1995, the Tigers were led by Milorad Ulemek. 4048 Arkan himself never
went to Velika Kladuša, as he was too well known to personally lead the mission, but some
SDG members and Slađana, Simatović’s secretary, told the witness that Simatović was often
4039 Witness JF-057, T. 9360.
4040 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 2; P1645 (Map annotated by Witness JF-057).
4041 P1620 (Charts of exhibits commented on by Witness JF-057, 22 November 2010), p. 1.
4042 Borislav Pelević, T. 16319, 16321-16322, 16515.
4043 Borislav Pelević, T. 16398.
4044 Witness JF-057, T. 9584-9585.
4045 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 3; P1617 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 29
November 2002), pp. 2-3; P1618 (Witness JF-057, Prior testimony), pp. 19464, 19468, 19561-19562.
4046 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 3; P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10
November 2002), p. 6; P1618 (Witness JF-057, Prior testimony), p. 19468.
4047 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 3; P1618 (Witness JF-057, Prior testimony), pp.
19546-19547, 19562; Witness JF-057, T. 9584.
4048 P1615 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 9 July 2002), p. 3; P1616 (Witness JF-057, witness statement, 10
November 2002), p. 6; P1618 (Witness JF-057, Prior testimony), pp. 19461, 19465; Witness JF-057, T. 9480.
Case No. IT-03-69-T 696
30 May 2013