A UN-backed tribunal on Tuesday acquitted three Hezbollah members in absentia over the 2005 murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri in a huge suicide bombing. "The trial chamber finds Hassan Habib Merhi, Hussein Oneissi and Assad Sabra not guilty of all counts charged in the amended consolidated indictment," said David Re, presiding judge of the Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon. jhe/pma