Nightline Daily Email: 6/28
W A S H I N G T O N, June 28 -- We had been expecting this for a while, rumors were rampant in Belgrade, but today a Yugoslav court issued an order blocking the extradition of Milosevic. We were working on the broadcast on the death of Jack Lemmon, and then word came that an independent radio station in Belgrade was reporting that Milosevic had been turned over.
The bulletins came fast and furious after that. As best we know now, he is on his way to the U.S. base in Tusla, Bosnia. From there, he will be flown to the Hague. This is the first time that a former head of state has been handed over to be tried for war crimes.
As regular viewers of Nightline know, we have devoted a lot of time and effort to this story. It's been a long journey from those early reports on the war, through Kosovo, to this point. I was about to write that maybe this is the beginning of the end of the conflict in the Balkans, but then I realized that with Macedonia in the early stages of what appears to be a civil war, that statement would have been naïve.
In any case, we're sorry that we won't be able to do the broadcast on Jack Lemmon, but this is an easy call.
Leroy Sievers is executive producer for Nightline.
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