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This paper examines the consequences for stability in Lebanon following the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon set up to investigate the crime. Hizbollah has warned of firm action if the government, now led by the victim's son, Saad Hariri, fails to denounce the tribunal. If the prime minister complies, he and his partisans would suffer a devastating political blow. If he does not, consequences for them and the country could be more ruinous still.