It is also the subject of a U.N.-backed tribunal which is considering indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Hizbullah received a body blow following the Syrian-ordered February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.

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After the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon entered a new, politically violent chapter of its history.

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Rafiq Hariri, a billionaire former prime minister and the government's leading critic, has had his patch reduced by two-thirds.

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