Ex-PM Saad Hariri said Tuesday he accepted a special tribunal's verdict over the 2005 murder of his father, former prime minister Rafik Hariri.

"The court has ruled, and in the name of the family of the late prime minister Rafik Hariri and on behalf of the families of the martyrs and victims, we accept the court's ruling," he said outside the court.

The U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Tuesday convicted one member of Hizbullah and acquitted three others of involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The STL said Salim Ayyash was guilty as a co-conspirator of five charges linked to his involvement in the suicide truck bombing. Hariri and 21 others were killed and 226 were wounded in a huge blast outside a seaside hotel in Beirut on Feb. 14, 2005.

A white plume, a huge orange blast and black smoke engulfing him: those were the last things Rony Mecattaf saw when the Beirut explosion maimed him and his city.

Judges at a U.N.-backed tribunal said Tuesday that there was no evidence the leaderships of Hizbullah and Syria were involved in the 2005 suicide truck bomb assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The Saudi embassy in Lebanon on Tuesday denied as baseless remarks attributed to Saudi Ambassador Walid Bukhari about the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Hizbullah's role in Lebanon's political life.

"The ambassador did not speak to the (Bahraini) newspaper (al-Bilad), which did not verify the report before publishing it in line with professionalism and journalistic ethics," the embassy said in a statement.

President Michel Aoun has called for "accepting" the verdicts that will be issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the case of the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri.

A Special Tribunal for Lebanon session to announce the verdicts in the case of the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri kicked off at 12:00 pm Beirut time at The Hague.

The session is expected to end at 6:00 pm.

President Aoun ruled out as "impossible" on Tuesday the hypothesis that a Hizbullah arms depot was behind the Beirut port blast, stressing that the party wasn't storing arms there.

There are “strict instructions” from al-Mustaqbal Movement to prevent “any reactions on the ground” over the verdicts that will be issued Tuesday by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the case of the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, a Mustaqbal MP said.

“We won't allow the verdict to drag the country into any internal troubles,” Hajjar told al-Jadeed TV.

The death of Rafik Hariri is to many Lebanese what the JFK assassination was to Americans four decades earlier -- everybody remembers what they were doing when the news broke.