Ghobeiri Municipality defended its decision to name a street in Beirut’s southern suburbs after Hezbollah military commander Mustafa Badreddine, one of the main suspects in former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination, calling the move “legal.”
![Four Hezbollah members went on trial in absentia at a UN-backed tribunal accused of murdering Hariri in a 2005 car bombing, with sectarian tensions running high at home. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Par7764185.jpg?itok=nEFwDdiC "Four Hezbollah members went on trial in absentia at a UN-backed tribunal accused of murdering Hariri in a 2005 car bombing, with sectarian tensions running high at home. [AFP]")
![Although the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has been heralded as a watershed moment for international justice, many in the country say they have very little faith in the U.N.-backed court. [ijhl]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/STL.jpg?itok=-SJb_Byb "Although the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has been heralded as a watershed moment for international justice, many in the country say they have very little faith in the U.N.-backed court. [ijhl]")
