A UN-backed court has ruled that there is enough evidence for a trial over the killing
of Lebanon's former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri. Four men have been indicted by the
Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the 2005 car bombing, although they remain at large
and will be tried in absentia unless they're apprehended. Prosecutors say all four
are members of the militant group Hezbollah, and that the ringleader had earlier been
sentenced to death in Kuwait over the 1983 bombings of the US and French embassies
there. Martin Youssef is the spokesperson for the Lebanon Tribunal. “Today marks
the unsealing of those two very significant documents, and for the very first time
the Lebanese people and the international community as a whole will see a comprehensive
detail of the prosecutions work, of the investigations work. Of course this incident
happened in 2005 and there have been lots of questions on the work of the tribunal,
lots of questions on the work of the prosecution. And this is a solid answer on what
the prosecution has been doing, and what the tribunal has been doing as a whole.”Listen