As for the political side of the regime, the highest officials don't need Saddam Hussein to tell them that after an allied victory they would be facing war-crime trials.

If Saddam Hussein lives until the war is over, the U.S. has plenty of leverage it can use - including embargoes and war-crime trials.

And you'd better not hold our people hostage or there'll be war-crime trials for all officers over the rank of lieutenant.

"You could be physically there, controlling the flow of information and using war-crime trials to show the Germans that atrocities were done in their name."

The top political and military leaders of the Bosnian Serbs must be arrested and held for war-crime trials if they appear in any country in the world.

The concept of war-crime trials is important.

The nations run from every war-crime trial that is politically or economically inconvenient, which has meant everybody but the Bosnian Serbs.

But then it announced that it would press ahead with war-crime trials without international supervision.

Q - When you say we've got to send a signal on "ethnic cleansing," something like considering war-crime trials is what you're talking about?

The plan also calls for war-crime trials of Iraqi leaders and a transition to an elected civilian government that could take months or years.