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LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands, May 10 (UPI) -- The defense team for suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri says the special tribunal lacks jurisdiction to try the case.

The alleged mastermind of the truck bomb slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is challenging the legality of the UN-backed tribunal that indicted him and three other Hezbollah members.

The international tribunal investigating the 2005 slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is no longer valid, Shiite authorities said in Lebanon.

The alleged mastermind of the truck bomb slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is challenging the legality of the UN-backed tribunal that indicted him and three other Hezbollah members.

The defense teams for the four Hezbollah members indicted in the 2005 assassination of FPM Rafik Hariri have filed preliminary motions challenging.

AMSTERDAM (AP) - The alleged mastermind of the truck bomb slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is challenging the legality of the UN-backed tribunal that indicted him and three other Hezbollah members.

The party loyal to Lebanese leader Saad Hariri called on the prime minister-designate to stay loyal to a tribunal investigating the 2005 death of Rafik Hariri.

Internal Security Forces foiled an attempt to smuggle 7.85 kilograms of heroin to Russia via Lebanon at the Rafik Hariri International Airport Saturday.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon will allow 58 victims to participate in the court case against four Hezbollah suspects accused of involvement in former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination.

Former STL chief investigator Nick Kaldas admitted mistakes had been made in the probe into the killing of Rafik Hariri but said that solid evidence against the four suspects goes beyond telecoms data to include witnesses.