The identity of the suicide bomber, who detonated a large quantity of explosives concealed in a Mitsubishi van, killing ex-Premier Rafik Hariri and 22 others, remains unknown, the indictment released by the international tribunal said Wednesday.

“On 14 February 2005, at about 12:52, closed-circuit TV footage shows the Mitsubishi Canter van move slowly towards the St. Georges Hotel,” the indictment said.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare welcomed on Wednesday the recent order of Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen to unseal the indictment in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Bellmare said: “This Order will finally inform the public and the victims about the facts alleged in the indictment regarding the commission of the crime that led to charging the four accused.”

Special Tribunal for Lebanon Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen ordered on Wednesday that his decision confirming the indictment related to the February 14, 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, as well as the indictment itself, be made public, said the STL in a press release.

“In his decision confirming the indictment, the Pre-Trial Judge found that the Prosecution has presented sufficient evidence on a prima facie basis to proceed to trial,” it stated.

The bodies of a Lebanese couple were found near their home in the town of al-Kharbeh in Jbeil district a month after their disappearance, state-run National News Agency reported Wednesday.

According to preliminary investigations, Charles Ghaleb murdered his wife Mariam Akl Khadra with two shots from his hunting rifle before killing himself, NNA said.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat believes that adopting proportional representation for the parliamentary elections will be employed politically by the rival political camps given the sharp divide in the country, prominent parliamentary sources told the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat Wednesday.

They stressed that the MP supports reforming the electoral law.

The cabinet is expected to hold a tense session on Thursday amid threats by Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun to withdraw his ministers from the government over a controversial electricity bill.

Cabinet ministers are scheduled to tackle 50 items on the agenda plus the electricity draft law that was proposed by Aoun at parliament and which faced stiff opposition from March 14 lawmakers and criticism from some of his allies.

Al-Mustaqbal movement stressed on Wednesday it will not remain silent over any rhetoric that affects it, noting that Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem’s accusations don’t serve soothing the political and sectarian tension in Lebanon.

High-ranking sources in al-Mustaqbal told As Safir newspaper that Qassem’s stance is probably to express the tension that the party is going through after the release of the international tribunal’s indictment.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri has no intention to return to Lebanon any time soon, where political and security issues force him to remain abroad, the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported on Wednesday.

“He controls the timing of his return (to Beirut),” al-Mustaqbal movement sources told the newspaper.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr stressed Cairo’s keenness on political stability in Lebanon and called for the participation of all political parties in Lebanese decision-making.

Following talks with Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Tuesday, Amr said that “the only way to achieve stability is to guarantee the participation of all political players in the governing structure in Lebanon based on their real representation.”

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Wednesday the relevant authorities in Lebanon did their best in their attempt to arrest the four suspects named in the indictment issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri.

“The relevant authorities have been looking for the various people on a daily basis,” Miqati told Newsweek U.S. weekly news magazine.