21/03/2009 14:02
300 Lebanese police to protect judges in Hariri tribunal
Three hundred Lebanese police officers have undergone training to protect four judges appointed to a UN tribunal to try the accused killers of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, AFP reports.
The officers will be assigned round-the-clock to protect the four judges, their families and their homes in Lebanon. the officers would start work once the names of the judges have been made public.
Officials at The Hague-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which opened on March 1, have yet to identity the court's 11 judges, four of them Lebanese, assigned to the court.
Hariri was killed on 14 February 2005 along with 22 other people in a massive bomb blast in Beirut.