The scene of a car bomb explosion in Beirut on February 14, 2005, which killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri on Beirut's waterfront. Photograph: ReutersFrom Der Spiegel:
The United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri has reached surprising new conclusions -- and it is keeping them secret. According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, investigators now believe Hezbollah was behind the Hariri murder.
It was an act of virtually Shakespearean dimensions, a family tragedy involving murder and suicide, contrived and real tears -- and a good deal of big-time politics.
On February 14, 2005, Valentine's Day, at 12:56 p.m., a massive bomb exploded in front of the Hotel St. Georges in Beirut, just as the motorcade of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri passed by. The explosives ripped a crater two meters deep into the street, and the blast destroyed the local branch of Britain's HSBC Bank. Body parts were hurled as far as the roofs of surrounding buildings. Twenty-three people died in the explosion and ensuing inferno, including Hariri, his bodyguards and passersby.
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My Comment: If true, Hezbollah would never have acted alone. They are supported by Syria and Iran politically, financially, and receive literally all of their military assistance from them. If there was a conspiracy .... all roads lead back to these countries.
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