General view of the scene of a car bomb explosion in Beirut February 14, 2005. A massive car bomb killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri on Beirut's waterfront. Mohamed Azakir/Reuters/FileChaos Brewing In Lebanon Ahead Of Indictments In Hariri's Death -- Washington Post
The din of construction roars over Beirut's traffic as skyscrapers race toward completion. A warm autumn sun beats down on shoppers browsing through Beirut Souks, the luxury retail shopping complex built on a former battleground of Lebanon's 15-year civil war. Latte drinkers plug headphones into shiny new laptops at a seafront Starbucks, tuning out warnings that this place is about to explode.
Politicians and a parade of diplomats have voiced concern in recent days that indictments to be issued soon by a U.N. tribunal investigating the 2005 murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will usher in a new era of political instability, or even bloodshed, should the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah be fingered in the killing.
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