Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic has just hours left to appeal against extradition to the Netherlands where he faces genocide and war crimes charges.
His lawyers have said they will wait until just before the 2000 GMT deadline to lodge the appeal.
Analysts say Mr Karadzic's extradition to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague is a formality and any appeal will serve only as a delaying tactic.
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He had been posing as an expert in alternative medicine, using the name of Dragan Dabic.
Speculation has been rife over the identity of the real Mr Dabic - some reports suggesting he was a slain Serb fighter, others that he was a civilian killed in Bosnia's capital during the war.
Officials announced on Thursday that the real Mr Dabic is almost certainly a father-of-two living in Ruma, a Serbian town just north of Belgrade.
"Dabic's ID differs from Karadzic's only in the photographs of the two," said Rasim Ljajic, a government official in charge of war crimes.
Mr Dabic told the Associated Press he had no idea how Mr Karadzic had managed to assume his identity.
"Instead of working in the garden, I'm being besieged by reporters and answering telephone calls. This is unfair. Instead of finding out who really cooked this up, I'm being questioned by police," he said.
After his capture in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, it emerged that Mr Karadzic had been masquerading as an expert in "human quantum energy".
He had a website and gave out business cards during alternative medicine lectures.
Mr Karadzic intends to conduct his own defence in The Hague once extradited.
There is speculation that he intends to drag proceedings out for as long as possible - possibly until 2010, when the court's United Nations mandate runs out.
His lawyer, Sveta Vujacic, said on Tuesday she intended to "disrupt" the extradition plans.
"I'll use the legal opportunity to appeal on the last possible day," she said.
Mr Karadzic, 63, declared independence for Bosnian Serbs in 1991, one of a series of events that led to the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
He has been indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide over the massacre of up to 8,000 mainly-Muslim Bosniaks at Srebrenica in 1995.
He has also been charged over the shelling of Sarajevo, and the use of 284 UN peacekeepers as human shields in May and June 1995.
(BBC)
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