Top Croatian war crimes suspect arrested, held

? Croatia’s top war crimes suspect – a retired general indicted in the killings of at least 150 Serbs – has been arrested at a luxury resort on Spain’s Canary Islands after four years on the run, officials said Thursday.

Elite Spanish police seized Ante Gotovina as he dined Wednesday evening at the Hotel Bitacora on the island of Tenerife, Spain’s Interior Ministry said. He had traveled to the island off Africa’s Atlantic coast on a fake Croatian passport, the ministry said.

Gotovina, 50, was flown Thursday to Madrid and ordered held overnight in a high-security prison north of Madrid, the Efe news agency said. He was expected to be turned over the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague today, reports said.

Gotovina, a retired Croatian army general, was indicted by the tribunal for the killings of at least 150 Serb rebels by troops under his command and for the expulsion of about 150,000 others during Croatia’s 1991-95 war.