NATO COMMANDER WESLEY CLARK IN US KFOR BASE IN UROSEVAC, 2000-01-27 (photo)

NATO commander for Europe General Wesley Clark (L) chats with the commander of the regional force, Brigadier General Ricardo Sanchez (R), during a visit to the U.S. KFOR base in the town of Urosevac January 27. As the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia got under way in March and talk of war crimes indictments against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and other Serbian leaders intensified, a loose network of antiwar law professors in Canada, Norway, Greece, Britain and France began plotting another strategy. Communicating by phone and e-mail, the professors began building a case for war crimes indictments against NATO. By the end of the 78-day air offensive, they believed they had "overwhelming evidence" to demand the criminal prosecution of the leaders of the United States, Britain and other alliance countries, as well as NATO's senior military commanders. IM/WS