hariri to call for the international tribunal. i am hoping to find out the truth, whoilled my father and why? i think it's our right to ask for the justice. it's the only way we can, we know who did it and we... we stop it for the future. >> reporter: but now on the eve of the release of indictments, events have taken a dramatic turn, drawing the tribunal into the heart of lebanese politics. while syria was long expected to be in some way implicated, word has leaked that in fact the tribunals main suspects may be members of hezbollah. officially designated a terrorist organization by the united states and supported by iran and syria, hezbollah is popular here due to its militant resistance to israeli incursions and occupation of southern lebanon. it represents lebanon's sizeable shia population and now holds 10% of seats in parliament. reclusive hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah has taken to the airwaves to demand that lebanon remove its judges from the hague, cut all funding and end its agreement to arrest and hand over suspects.

as hariri as black mercedes drew alongside the bomb went off. really was one of the world's richest man a billionaire. his mercedes was armored to the hilt the six. the best protection level there is. truly a route is the home of the modern car the car box we're seeing today in iraq and were developed on the streets suicide car bombs fell three police checkpoints to baghdad closing bell around twenty civilians and six police officers. to get into the war in iraq we saw dozens of loving is crossing the border into syria . and it was only a matter of time before a car bomb started on. a. car bombing might have become a lebanese national customs but the lebanese never created the car bomb. like a lot of other things in the twentieth century car bombs are an american invention . by the one nine hundred twenty so new york had become the financial center of world capitalism. but then in september one thousand twenty eight wall street was rocked by a massive explosion. it was the world's first car bomb. where we're walking right now is exactly where if

in the wake of his assassination and descendents of the pro-western march 14 block, his son, saad hariri on egyptian law and regulation without clear standards for participation in a democratic institutional framework has a recipe for disaster. in turn and lastly to the role of the egyptian army, it has been reported that the u.s. is working behind the scenes to impress upon the egyptian military the need to protect protesters and support a peaceful government transition. and i will be asking you questions on the ministrations view on the security assistance to egypt. the thank you very much for being here. i'm so proud and pleased to turn to my ranking member, mr. berman of california. >> well, thank you very much, madam chairman. i'm just getting word that a lot of people are getting except possibly the deputy secretary deputy secretary of state and other sources including quotes from the prime minister of egypt that hosni mubarak is to step down following an all-day meeting of the country's pre-military meeting and all the protesters demand to be meant in any further statements expect

force and hezbollah and the sunni population that last as prime minister billionaire to corrupt rafik hariri in the sunni population feel very weak. you had al qaeda ties from iraq who are basically in 2006, 2007, beginning to come in lebanon and take advantage of the weak state and palestinian camps and the lack of law and order but they are in the same themselves in lebanon. and you had different groups in lebanon, sun sponsored by saudi arabia trying to take advantage of al qaeda guys to fight a lot, where they were mostly focused on hoping they could fight palestinian. anyway, will be seen is lebanon since 2006, 2007 are increasing clashes between sunni and shia bugs on the street and it culminated in 2008 and sunni militias were quickly dispatched in defeated by hezbollah in 24

parliamentarians and journalists that began in be 2005 with the murder of former prime minister rafik haririup, hezbollah considered it outside to the reach of the government. hezbollah has systematically undermined lebanon's sovereignty and has made lebanon a regional time bomb by developing artillery rockets and advance surface-to-surface missiles all aimed at israel and shielding iran's nuclear weapons program. tragically, the people of lebanon are now hostages. like the captive nations of eastern europe during the cold war, their hearts are free, but their government has colluded with a foreign power to put them in chains. the unite must continue to advocate -- the united states must continue to advocate for lebanon's sovereignty and for the restoration of a legitimate government. we must continue to support the special tribunal for lebanon and keep faith with all all of of te people who want justice for their countrymen and prime minister. america must continue to insist on the implementation of u.n. security council resolutions. and finally, we need to be clear with the government of l