Generals Can Still Face Trial
Four Lebanese generals recently released can still face trial in connection to the assassination of ex-premier Rafik Hariri, the prosecuting attorney in the case said Friday.
On April 29, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon issued a ruling ordering the officials” release after nearly four years in detention on grounds there was insufficient evidence to indict them for Hariri”s 2005 murder.
"The (STL”s) decision does not prevent the generals from being tried and is not a verdict of innocence," Mohammed Matar said at a press conference.
The arrest warrants against the four followed "the rules of criminal procedure in terrorism-related crimes, conspiracy and in cases where the public prosecution has strong suspicions against the accused," he added.
Matar said the tape of an interview with former minister Michel Samaha should be "referred" to the STL. In the interview aired last week on al-Manar television Samaha said he possessed information vital to the Hariri case.