Lebanon tensely awaits the findings of the special prosecutor of the 2004 murder of Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri, which will be submitted to the International Court of Justice some time this evening.
If, as expected, Hizbullah terrorist head Hassan Nasrallah is indicted, as well as other Hizbullah leaders, a resumption of civil war in the Land of the Cedars is feared.
It is also assumed that Iranian involvement in the killing will be noted. Syria, too, has been identified as having had a hand in the murder.
Hizbullah caused the toppling of the Lebanese government last week when several Cabinet ministers resigned. Nasrallah instructed them to withdraw from the government when the Cabinet failed to agree to reject the findings incriminating Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hizbullah.
Nasrallah delivered a special speech last night in which he claimed, characteristically, that Israel was to blame for the failure of compromise talks after Hariri was killed. He even accused Hariri's son Saad, who was Prime Minister until Hizbullah quit his coalition and who is now abroad, of cooperating with Israel.
Rafik Hariri was killed in September 2005, together with 21 others, when explosives were detonated alongside his motorcade in Beirut.