On the same day, a local Serb councillor who was a close friend of Arkan was shot dead.

ECONOMIST: Arkan, perhaps sighted, surely wanted

Arkan has business interests in Kosovo (especially on its borders), so he would have a non-military reason for being there.

ECONOMIST: Arkan, perhaps sighted, surely wanted

The Serbian Unity Party run by Arkan, who, as Mr Raznatovic, was once a member of parliament, has refused to comment.

ECONOMIST: Arkan, perhaps sighted, surely wanted

Arkan Mouhsin tells the Americans he has an idea who may have been behind the attack, that insurgent elements are still intent on destroying stability.

CNN: Iraqi forces now calling the shots

Despite the assassination in 2000 of its leader, Arkan, the group is alleged to have become one of the most powerful organised criminal gangs in Serbia.

BBC: Spain to extradite convicted killer of Serb PM Djindjic

The Zemun gang, in which Milisavljevic was allegedly a senior member, was born out of Arkan's Tigers, a Serbian paramilitary unit which gained a reputation for brutality during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

BBC: Spain to extradite convicted killer of Serb PM Djindjic