United Nations ? The U.N. Security Council authorized the transfer Friday of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to an international tribunal that will try him for war crimes.

Taylor is now in the custody of a special U.N. court in Sierra Leone, where he pleaded innocent in April to charges stemming from that nation’s 1991-2002 civil war.

The Security Council voted 15-0 to authorize Taylor’s transfer to The Hague, where the Special Court will conduct the trial.

Taylor faces 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from his alleged backing of Sierra Leonean rebels, who terrorized victims by chopping off their arms, legs, ears and lips during the civil war.

No trial date had been set.