Serbia ? The deadline passed late Friday for Radovan Karadzic to lodge a formal appeal against his handover to the war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands, with the ex-Bosnian Serb warlord’s lawyer refusing to confirm that he had taken that step.

The lawyer, Sveta Vujacic, was clearly doing all he could to fight the extradition, but that included keeping everyone guessing.

Karadzic faces 11 charges against him at The Hague tribunal, including genocide and conspiracy to commit genocide for allegedly masterminding the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica – Europe’s worst massacre since World War II.