Special Tribunal for Lebanon hears ISF officer's testimony

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon heard on Wednesday the testimony of an Internal Security Forces officer whose identity remained undisclosed --for security purposes-- via video link from Beirut.

The witness claimed that several metal pieces collected from the crater caused by the massive bombing on February 14th, 2005, belonged to a vehicle from the motorcade of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the Mitsubishi van that the suicide bomber used.

The trial in absentia of the four suspects accused of killing Lebanese statesman Rafic Hariri opened in The Hague on Thursday January 16th, nine years after the bomb attack in which the former prime minister and 21 others died.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon was set up by the United Nations at the Lebanese government's request to try the alleged perpetrators of the 2005 bombing in which former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others were killed.

The suspects - Mustafa Amine Badreddine, a senior Hezbollah figure and brother-in-law of slain Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyeh, Salim Jamil Ayyash, Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Assad Hassan Sabra - remain at large.