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UN-backed Court Issues Verdict in 2005 Assassination of Lebanon's Hariri

Margaret Besheer

   NEW YORK - Judges at a U.N. backed tribunal are reading the verdict in
   the trial of four people accused of involvement in the 2005 roadside
   bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21
   others as his convoy passed along the Beirut waterfront.

   The four suspects are members of Hezbollah.

   A tribunal judge said Tuesday that the judges found that while Syria
   and Hezbollah "may have had motives to eliminate" Hariri, there is no
   evidence either was involved in Hariri's assassination.

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