Lebanese Hezbollah gets absurd acquittal in Rafic Hariri assassination trial

The Lebanese Hezbollah scored a major victory on Tuesday when the Special Tribunal for Lebanon failed to declare the organization responsible for the 2005 assassination of Rafic Hariri.

To be clear, delivered 11 years after the tribunal was first established, this verdict is an absurdity at odds with the court’s own established facts. The tribunal avoids holding Hezbollah responsible, but its summary and judgment findings offer ample evidence of the Party of God’s guilt. Indeed, the only thing this trial has proved is that international tribunals are incapable of handling complex terrorism cases.