BELGRADE (AP) - Serbian officials and media expressed outrage Saturday over the light two-year prison sentence handed down by the UN war crimes court to a Muslim wartime commander they blame for some of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian war. Naser Oric, the wartime commander of the Muslims in Srebrenica, was convicted Friday of failing to prevent the torture and killing of Serb prisoners in the eastern Bosnian enclave. But the UN court decided he was not directly involved and punished him with a light two years in prison. “The verdict brings into question the credibility of the (Hague) court,” said Aleksandar Simic, an adviser to Serbia’s Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Justice Minister Zoran Stojkovic expressed disgust with the sentence, saying it made no sense “from a human, moral or legal point of view.”

ANKARA (AP) - A court on Sunday ordered the formal arrests of 26 people, including 13 customs officers, accused of accepting bribes and illegally taking possession of fuel brought into Turkey from Iraq, reports said. They are among 35 people detained by police in a raid last week at the Habur border gate as part of a government effort to reduce rampant corruption, the Anatolia news agency reported. The court ordered nine others released pending the outcome of a trial, Anatolia said.

US and British agents have joined the search for top UN war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, Serbia’s defense minister confirmed in comments published Saturday. Serbian media reported earlier in the week that American and British intelligence officers were helping local security services to find Mladic, the former Bosnian-Serb commander wanted on genocide charges by the UN court in The Hague. Defense Minister Zoran Stankovic told the Glas daily that “undoubtedly, some of their (US, British intelligence) members are included” in the hunt, confirming the media reports. (AP)