Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare has named a fifth civilian suspect in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 2005 assassination, informed diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.

The sources told al-Liwaa daily that the suspect is a politician and not a party militant or a member of a secret security service.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare on Monday addressed a farewell letter to the Lebanese people on the occasion of the end of his tenure, stressing that he did his job “objectively” and noting that “historic days lie ahead for justice and the People of Lebanon.”

Bellemare will leave office at the end of this month. In November 2007 he was assigned by U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon as the commissioner for the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) into the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, replacing Serge Brammertz of Belgium.

The judges of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon have approved some amendments to the tribunal's Rules of Procedure and Evidence, said the STL in a statement on Monday.

There were a limited number of changes, which clarified the existing rules especially in relation to victims, it added.

The Phalange Party criticized on Monday the current crisis in the government, saying that it has demonstrated that it is incapable of settling the smallest of disputes.

It said in a statement after its weekly politburo meeting: “The solution to the crisis should adhere to the constitution and respect the role of the president and prime minister.”

A delegation from Hizbullah held talks on Monday with Sunni Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani on the various local and regional developments.

The Mufti stressed after the talks the need to “fortify Lebanon against the developments in the region.”

The head of the Audit Bureau Judge Aouni Ramadan stated on Monday that the bureau will pursue the issue of red diesel scandal in Lebanon until it is resolved.

He revealed to the National News Agency that the Bureau had referred a report on the case to the General Prosecution.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat warned on Monday against attempts to create division among Syria and Lebanon’s Druze population regarding the former’s anti-regime demonstrations.

He said in his weekly editorial in the PSP-affiliated al-Anbaa magazine: “Internal division has also taken place within the Lebanese government” where some sides support the Syrian regime and others back the protests.

Hizbullah MP Nawaf Moussawi criticized on Monday calls for the U.N. Security Council to discuss the setting up of “humanitarian corridors” to allow an aid group to reach areas hit with the Syrian army crackdown.

“Where were these humanitarian corridors to aid the Palestinian people in Gaza that is still suffering from the (Israeli) siege?” Moussawi said.

Three men have stabbed a Pizza Hut delivery driver and robbed him of LL250,000 in the town of Hadath in Beirut, the National News Agency reported Monday.

NNA said that Alaa Safwan, 23, was delivering a pizza on Sunday night when three men in a silver Nissan Tida intercepted his motorcycle.

A man died from a heart attack after he sought to mediate to end an armed dispute between his son and two other men in the north Metn town of Dekwaneh, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

NNA said that the father passed away at the Lebanese-Canadian Hospital after he was injured as he tried to mediate between his son Issam Kairouz, who works at a money exchange house, and two brothers from the Gedeon family.