Many in Lebanon fear that the international tribunal investigating the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 will issue indictments of members of the Lebanese Shia movement Hizbullah (also spelled Hezbollah). If that happens, Hizbullah has warned it will not accept the indictments. The outcome could be a new new war picking up, as it were, where the summer 2006 war left off. The following article contains a good summary of Lebanon’s recent political woes (click here for more).
Robert F. Worth, “Hezbollah Looks for Shield From Indictments’ Sting,” New York Times, July 25, 2010
UPDATE – July 30, 2010
President Bashar Assad of Syria and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia are both in Beirut attempting to head off another political crisis and perhaps even another sectarian war.
