Charles Taylor's trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague may move to the Hariri Tribunal in a nearby town due to lack of space at the ICC, court sources said.

Former Liberian president Taylor is currently being tried by the Special Court of Sierra Leone (SCSL), which originally started in Sierra Leone's Freetown. However, in 2006 the Unite Nations decided to move the trial to the Netherlands for security reasons. At that time, the ICC had court rooms available since no trials were held there.

As in July the case former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo will start at the ICC, the Court will need all its three court rooms. This means that there will be no space for the Taylor trial.

Taylor's case is likely to move to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) - also known as the Hariri Tribunal - in Leidschendam.

The STL, formed by the UN in 2007, is the first international tribunal to investigate terrorism. It focuses on the attack of 14th February 2005 that killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others. Until now, however, the STL has not made any formal indictments.

Charles Ghankay Taylor is accused of eleven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was president of Liberia from 1997 until 2003, but stands trial for accusations of supporting Sierra Leonean rebels, specifically the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), during the country's bloody civil war.

Taylor was transferred to the SCSL in 2006. He is the second former head of state to be tried before an international criminal tribunal after Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic. The former Liberian president says he has been a peacemaker instead of a war criminal.

The SCSL was set up jointly by the Government of Sierra Leone and the UN in 2002 and is mandated to try those who bear "greatest responsibility" for atrocities committed Sierra Leone's civil war between 1991 and 2002.