The group officially "decertified" the party votes in Pale, where Dr. Karadzic, who has been indicted on war-crimes charges, lives and works.

He is facing a long list of war-crimes charges, including genocide.

It may well be that exposing Mr. Milosevic in this way will clear the path for his later trial on war-crimes charges.

While there is great public pressure to charge him with corruption, election theft and other domestic crimes, officials also talk about war-crimes charges.

In that story, the Blair figure is living on Martha's Vineyard, hiding from possible war-crimes charges while a ghostwriter puts together an account of his life.

The military judges said Congress authorized the bringing of war-crimes charges against detainees who had been declared by military tribunals to be "unlawful enemy combatants."

The United States cannot try suspects on war-crimes charges but seeks to establish that they entered the country under false pretenses.

Slobodan Milosevic has been indicted on war-crimes charges, accused of having been responsible for the deaths of at least hundreds of innocents.

The official also suggested that the pressure on Mr. Milosevic might have grown after he was indicted on war-crimes charges last week.

Among those, they said, was a quick reminder to Serbia that the writ of the tribunal that brings war-crimes charges also covers the events in Kosovo.