The Kosovo parliament on Friday elected former ethnic Albanian rebel commander Ramush Haradinaj as prime minister of the UN-run southern Serbian province, in a move certain to infuriate Belgrade. Haradinaj was a senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla movement during the 1998-99 separatist war against Serbian forces, and has recently been questioned by UN war crimes investigators.
His nomination for prime minister by President Ibrahim Rugova following October parliamentary polls has been questioned by European officials, although he has not been charged with any crimes and denies all the allegations.
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