A woman prays at the grave of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in downtown Beirut January 15, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Four men accused of assassinating Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri used dozens of mobile phones during the last weeks of his life to coordinate the massive car bombing that killed him and 21 others in 2005, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The trial in absentia of the four, all members of the Hezbollah political party and militant group, began before a United Nations court in The Hague, nearly nine years after the bombing that nearly plunged Lebanon back into civil war.
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