Assassination of Rafic Hariri

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On 14 February 2005, former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri was killed along with 21 others in an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. Explosives equivalent to around 1,000 kilograms of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel. Among the dead were several of Hariri's bodyguards and former Minister of the Economy, Bassel Fleihan.

A Ministry of the Interior soldier guarding the site of the assassination

Memorial shrine to Hariri

Rue Minet al Hosn where Hariri was assassinated

Bashar al-Assad is widely regarded to have approved the assassination. International investigations revealed direct participation of members in the highest echelons of the Syrian government.

Rafic Hariri

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Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri, also known as Rafiq al-Hariri, was a Lebanese business tycoon and politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until he resigned on 20 October 2004, before his assassination in 2005.

Hariri in 2004

Rafic Hariri's former residence in Paris

U.S. President George W. Bush and Hariri meeting in the White House

Rafiq Hariri with Donald Rumsfeld