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    June 30, 2011

UN-Backed Tribunal Issues Arrest Warrants in Hariri Murder

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   Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, the son of slain former
   Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, prays at his father's grave in downtown
   Beirut, 09 Nov 2009
   Photo: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, the son of slain
   former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, prays at his father's grave in
   downtown Beirut, 09 Nov 2009
   Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, the son of slain former
   Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, prays at his father's grave in downtown
   Beirut, 09 Nov 2009

   Lebanese media report the United Nations-backed tribunal investigating
   the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has issued
   four arrest warrants and a sealed indictment to Lebanon's prosecutor
   general.
   The reports say at least two of the arrest warrants are for members of
   the Hezbollah militant group.
   Hariri's son Saad Hariri, also a former prime minister, says the
   indictments mark a "historic moment."
   The development comes just two weeks after Lebanese Prime Minister
   Najib Mikati announced a long-delayed coalition government dominated by
   the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and its allies.
   Lebanon had functioned without an official government since
   mid-January, when Hezbollah and its allies forced the collapse of
   then-Prime Minister Saad Hariri's pro-Western government.
   The Hezbollah-led group withdrew from the national unity Cabinet at
   that time due to disagreements about the tribunal's investigation of
   the assassination of Rafik Hariri in a 2005 Beirut truck bombing.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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