Report: Jumblat at The Hague over Hariri Murder Trial Testimony

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat is at The Hague where the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is based for possible consultations on his testimony in the trial of suspects in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's Feb. 2005 assassination, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.

The daily said Jumblat traveled to the Netherlands on Tuesday.

The Prosecution said last month that it was mulling to ask Jumblat to testify at the court.

The PSP chief later replied through a tweet, saying he would go to the STL if he was asked to.

The in absentia trial of Hizbullah members accused of murdering Hariri in a suicide truck bombing in Beirut kicked off in January.

In 2011, the court issued arrest warrants against Mustafa Badreddine, Salim Ayyash, Hussein Oneissi, and Assad Sabra, all members of Hizbullah.

The four suspects were indicted in 2011 with plotting the attack against Hariri, but have not been arrested. A fifth, Hassan Habib Merhi, was charged late last year in the case and is also still at large.

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