Lebanon awaits Hariri assassination indictments

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Tensions are rising in Lebanon as a UN court prepares to issue indictments relating to the assassination of the country’s former prime minister. There is reason to believe that members of the powerful political party of Hezbollah will be named. Ben Gilbert reports that Hezbollah is mounting a counter-offensive.

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