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Kosovo is in the news again, this time with the election of the new prime minister, nationalist and former guerilla fighter Ramush Haradinaj. In a power-sharing agreement with the Democratic League of Kosovo led by Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, Haradinaj is the new leader of the government while Rugova carries on as president of the Serbian province. The new PM brings some troubling baggage to the position, however. Most recently, he has been questioned, twice, by Carla del Ponte the head of the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague. While he is innocent until indicted and proven guilty, the questioning,...

The Hague tribunal is investigating Ramush Haradinaj, a man who could be Kosovo’s next prime minister. PRISTINA, Kosovo -- In a move that sent shockwaves through Kosovo’s political landscape, the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague has questioned the leader of the province’s third-largest political party, Ramush Haradinaj from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), just as negotiations on the formation of a new government are entering a critical phase. Should the negotiations between the AAK and Kosovo’s largest party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), succeed, Haradinaj has a good chance of even...