Murder and Miscalculation


Aug 18 2020 45 mins   52
A UN-backed tribunal has convicted one member of the Hezbollah militant group and acquitted three others of involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The massive explosion that killed Hariri and 21 others on the Beirut waterfront shocked the world and set off a wave of political instability that is still wreaking havoc today. In the wake of the assassination, through interviews with Rafik Hariri's friends and political allies, Four Corners pieced together the last days and minutes of Hariri's life and investigated the motive behind his assassination.