text: Much to the embarrassment of his brother-in-law and the consternation of others in the State Department , details have recently emerged about Shearer 's efforts , in 1996 and 1997 , to arrange for Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to surrender to the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague .
  
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  The relatives did not know that their relation was a criminal .