FILE PHOTO: A crowd of Lebanese people pack Martyrs' Square to mark the first anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon February 14, 2006. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi/File Photo
BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 15 years since Lebanon's Rafik al-Hariri was killed by a massive bomb blast in Beirut, the verdict of a U.N.-backed tribunal into his assassination is due on Tuesday as the country reels from the aftermath of an even bigger explosion.
The Aug. 4 port blast, which killed 178 people, has overshadowed the long-awaited verdict. It was the biggest explosion in Lebanon's history and more powerful than the bomb that killed Hariri and 21 others on Beirut's seafront corniche in 2005.
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