Zeljko Dilber, a close friend and comrade in arms of General Ante Gotovina, said on Sunday evening that when time came it would come to light who had helped in the general's arrest seven years ago.
"It will come to light who spread misinformation and helped in the arrest of General Gotovina. I know the truth, but all in good time," Dilber told the press when asked for a comment on statements by members of Parliament last week as to who had helped locate Gotovina.
He said that actions by some of the members of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party had done damage to General Gotovina, but that the party's current leader Tomislav Karamarko was not one of them.
At a session of Parliament on Friday, when General Gotovina and General Mladen Markac were acquitted of war crimes charges by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Dinko Buric of the regional HDSSB party blamed the HDZ's leadership and president Karamarko for the fact that the two general had spent years in the tribunal's custody innocent. Buric accused Karamarko, who had served as chief of the Counterintelligence Agency (POA) in 2005, of activities that led to Gotovina's arrest.
Gotovina spent seven and a half years in the Hague tribunal's detention centre and Markac five years.
