UN tribunal says enough evidence to tie 2 Hezbollah members to phones in Hariri assassination

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — There is enough evidence to link two members of the Hezbollah terror group to cellphones allegedly involved in the 2005 murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, international judges say as they read out verdicts at a UN-backed court.

The judges at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, however, say there is insufficient proof to tie two other suspects to the network of mobiles that prosecutors say were used to plot the huge Beirut suicide bombing that killed Sunni billionaire Hariri.

Judges also say there is no evidence to directly link Syria — the former military overlord in Lebanon — or Hezbollah’s leadership to the attack.

The final verdicts will be handed down later today at the court just outside The Hague in the Netherlands, where the four alleged Hezbollah members are on trial in absentia.

— AFP