Rafic Hariri, Muqtada al-Sadr and the future of Iraq.

The investigations into the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri blamed Hizbullah operatives for the crime, though the Special Tribunal for Lebanon did not accuse Hizbullah as an institution of the murder. The investigations relied on telecoms data to blame Hizbullah, though the latter blames Israel. Accepting for a moment the clai…