A UN-backed court probing the 2005 murder of Lebanon's ex-Premier Rafik Hariri named four people in a long-awaited indictment that was delivered to Lebanon’s Prosecutor General Said Mirza, LBC television reported.
The suspects named in the indictment – content of which was not made public – were identified as Mustapha Badreddine, Salim Ayyache, Hassan Issa and Assad Sabra, LBC said.
The four men are believed to be members of the Shia group Hezbollah.
Accorting to OTV, Salim Ayyache is the head of Hezbollah’s Execution unit.
Other media reports said that Mustapha Badreddine is a relative of Hezbollah slain commander Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in Syria in 2008.
Badreddine reportedly succeeded Mughniyeh as Hezbollah’s chief Operations Officer.
Lebanon, according to experts, now has 30 days to serve out the arrest warrants. If the suspects are not arrested within that period, the STL will then make public the indictment and summon the suspects to appear before the court.
The findings of the tribunal have been the subject of wide speculation in Lebanon and there is fear that an indictment of members of Hezbollah, which dominates the new government, could spark sectarian unrest.
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