Lebanon has suffered decades of political assassinations that targeted top political, religious and security leaders, journalists and thinkers. Such political murders remained largely unsolved and rarely were cases properly investigated or the culprits found, judged or sentenced. The family of Lokman Slim, a 58-year-old researcher and staunch critic of the Iran-backed Hezbollah, who was shot dead in southern Lebanon last February, was not willing to accept such a legacy of ...