Was AFP fooled by a fake?

A photo taken from Karadzic's alleged perosnal site.

Agence France Presse this afternoon released a dispatch about what they say is the personal website of Rodovan Karadzic. According to the site, the former Serbian leader spent his travelling in the name of health, and is now an advocate for alternative forms of medicine. A blogger explains why it could be fake.

The dispatch, which was picked up by French daily Le Monde's website at 1pm, explained that "under the name of Dr. Dragen Dabic, Radovan Karadzic (...) put a fictional biography online in the hope of diverting potential leads from the authorities". The news agency also took quotes from the site, including Chinese proverbs supposedly posted online by the former Serbian politician (e.g. "Behind every able man, there are always other able men"). The information does seem credible, as Rodovan Karadzic, a trained psychologist, converted to alternative forms of medicine and worked in a clinic in Belgrade under the name of Dragan Dabic.

European bloggers Kosmopolit however, say that it is in fact a fake. They explain that a quick search of the domain names database (Who's) proves that the site was created on... 22 July this year. Which was after Karadzic's arrest. According to them, the site was made by someone having a laugh, and AFP just didn't get the joke. This is not set in stone of course, but it does raise serious suspicions that the agency might have been fooled.