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First Indictment Filed in Lebanon's Hariri Killing

BEIRUT -- A U.N. tribunal filed the first indictment Monday in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, touching off a process many fear could ignite new bloodshed nearly six years after the massive truck bombing along Beirut's waterfront. The contents of the draft indictment were not revealed and...

Phone Records Link Hezbollah to Rafik Hariri Assassination

(Nov. 22) -- The Canadian Broadcast Corp. has conducted an investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and concludes that phone records implicate Hezbollah in the attack. The CBC draws on sources involved with or privy to details of an ongoing investigation by the United...

Hezbollah Planning Coup in Lebanon?

(Nov. 2) -- It's been five years since the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister and billionaire Rafik Hariri by a truck bomb in downtown Beirut. In the aftermath, a United Nations tribunal has puttered and sputtered but finally appears poised to hand down indictments, which could explode the combustible Lebanese...

Israel Gets Close Look at Archenemy Ahmadinejad

JERUSALEM (Oct. 14) -- "Like a landlord visiting his domain," according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his flower-strewn progress through southern Lebanon today to deliver a triumphant, tub-thumping speech at the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil, just two miles from the...

Spy Games in Lebanon: The Latest Wrinkle in the Hariri Investigation

(Aug. 10) -- Even without its foreign entanglements, Lebanese politics is a restive business, marked by sectarian tensions, mistrust and violence. Throw in the ambitions of Iran, Syria, Israel and other regional and international powers and you have the sort of intrigue and subterfuge normally reserved for Graham Greene...

Rafik Hariri News From the Web

05/20/12 Syrian Crisis Spills Over Into Lebanon Source: IPS Inter Press Service Chants erupt from the second floor of a decrepit building in Tripoli in the Sunni stronghold of Bab el-Tebbaneh.
05/10/12 Hariri slaying suspect challenges UN court Source: Columbus Telegram - Columbus NE 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.
03/27/12 It's Good to Be the Prince Source: Portfolio.com: Daily Brief F acebook is good for your Web footprintâif you are a young billionaire who happened to help build the company.

Background on Rafik Hariri

Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri (November 1, 1944 – February 14, 2005, ), was a business tycoon and the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation, 20 October 2004.

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