Hariri verdict builds case for Hezbollah’s accountabilityDUBAI: The verdict comes at a difficult moment even by Lebanon’s standards, barely two weeks after a blast left nearly half of the capital Beirut destroyed or damaged. Tried in absentia, Ayyash was convicted by the STL on Tuesday while the other three were acquitted. A fifth man, Mustafa Amin Badr Al-Din, was dropped from the indictment after he was killed in Syria in 2016. Prosecutors had described Badr Al-Din, the commander of Hezbollah's military wing, as "overall controller of the operation" to assassinate Hariri. We will not rest until the punishment is carried out.”Saad said he had expected more information to emerge from the trial.

Source: Ethiopian News August 18, 2020 18:22 UTC