Mitrovica, Kosovo

AN INTERESTING PAIR of events took place on Monday, July 21: President George W. Bush welcomed Kosovo’s Albanian leaders, President Fatmir Sejdiu and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, to the White House. Bush was all smiles, declaring, “I’m a strong supporter of Kosovo’s independence. I’m against any partition of Kosovo. I believe strongly that the United Nations mission must be transferred to the EU as quickly as possible.” Then late that night, Serbia announced the arrest of its number-two indicted war criminal, the Bosnian Serb poet and government psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic, with the declared intention of turning him over for trial at the UN Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.