21.   At each trial, Ms. Burke said that Giovanelli shot her and that the other defendants were at his side.

22.   Attorneys for the other defendants had been expecting a Whitacre guilty plea.

23.   Besides Hamon, the other defendants are former Marley vice presidents Walter Whalen, Timothy Wigger and Charles Vessels.

24.   Branco Jovanovic, a representative of an association of Serbian war victims based in Belgrade, said her group is demanding that charges against the four defendants be broadened.

25.   A lawyer for Schussler, Steven Cohen, declined to comment on the charges, as did lawyers for many of the other defendants.

26.   According to military officials, this fourth person later helped identify the three defendants.

27.   After transporting the homeless recruits to the site, the three defendants obtained false Social Security cards for the nine workers, according to the indictment.

28.   After the four defendants were arrested and indicted in September, Peck agreed to plead guilty and testify against the three others.

29.   All of the other defendants have declined to comment.

30.   Almost all the other defendants remain at large, including Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb political leader, and Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military commander.