NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The independent U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister will try four men in absentia, officials said.
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague in the Netherlands last July identified four Lebanese nationals -- Salim Jamil Ayyash, Mustafa Amine Badreddine, Husein Hassan Oneissi and Assad Hassan Sabra -- as suspects in the car bombing that killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others on Feb. 14, 2005.