John Bellinger, the State Department's legal advisor, says officials are already working out the modalities of moving the Taylor trial to the International Criminal Court, the world's first anti-war crimes tribunal and a court the U.S. opposes.

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But Madeleine Albright, the American secretary of state, insists that he is a war criminal who must still face an internationally acceptable trial.

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