CBC INVESTIGATION: who killed Rafik Hariri. “Evidence gathered by Lebanese police and, much later, the UN, points overwhelmingly to the fact that the assassins were from Hezbollah, the militant Party of God that is largely sponsored by Syria and Iran. CBC News has obtained cellphone and other telecommunications evidence that is at the core of the case.” That Hariri was killed by the Syrians is no shock. Neither is the blithering U.N. incompetence exposed here.