The Story of Rafiq Hariri

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In February 2005, a powerful truck bomb killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 20 other people. Six years on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon - tasked with bringing the killers to justice - is preparing to issue indictments against those it suspects of being involved. Reporting from Beirut Owen Bennett Jones looks back at the life of the man they called Mr Lebanon and at the legal process that has lasted so long.