The friend, a prominent businessman, is in unrelated trouble: he has been arrested for possessing unlicensed bullets a capital offence in Malaysia.

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In the city of Karlovac, the capital of the Karlovac region and the former front line of the war, many of the buildings remain pockmarked by bullets, and the damage intensifies as you reach the outlying villages that had been taken by Serbian forces.

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