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Timeline: Lebanon Since 2005

Agence France-Presse

   BEIRUT - Lebanon, whose capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday by huge
   explosions that killed dozens, is mired in its worst economic crisis in
   decades andunprecedented social unrest.

   A timeline since 2005:

   Assassination of Rafik Hariri

   A massive suicide bomb tears through former prime minister Rafic
   Hariri's armored convoy on the Beirut seafront on Feb. 14, 2005,
   killing him and 21 other people.

   Opposition leaders blame Syria, but Damascus denies any role. Lebanon's
   powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah is also heavily suspected.

   Amid a groundswell of protests, Syrian troops quit Lebanon on April 26
   after a 29-year deployment which had peaked at 40,000 troops.

   A U.N. tribunal trying the four suspects accused of the assassination
   is set to deliver its verdict this coming Friday. Hezbollah chief
   Hassan Nasrallah has refused to hand over the defendants.

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