Dragan Jerinic, editor of Nezavisne Novine, a Banja Luka paper, says the argument is not really about police but about the desire for revenge on the part of Serb politicians who were sacked by Lord Ashdown last year for protecting war-crimes suspects.
According to his former boss and mentor, Henry Kissinger, Winston Lord played a central role in the earliest official misrepresentations about the status of unaccounted-for American servicemen from the Vietnam war.
He said he did not recognise the description of "sofa" government from Lord Butler, who used the term after he later headed an inquiry into the quality and use of pre-Iraq war intelligence on weapons of mass destruction.