The Hague, in the Netherlands.<br/> <br />It's here that the murder trial of Lebanon's former Prime Minister, Rafik al-Hariri, began on Thursday.<br/> <br />Nine years after the massive bomb attack on a Beirut waterfront that killed him and 21 others and wounded over 200 more.<br/> <br />Chief Prosecutor Norman Farrell.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) CHIEF PROSECUTOR NORMAN FARRELL SAYING:<br/> <br />"The attackers used an extraordinary quantity of high-grade explosives, far more than was required to kill their main target. Clearly their aim was not only to ensure that their target was killed, but to send a terrifying message and to cause panic among the population of Beirut and Lebanon."<br/> <br />The 2005 attack was aimed at critics of Syria's military dominance in Lebanon.<br/> <br />It almost tipped the country back into civil war.<br/> <br />Four men from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are accused in the murder.<br/> <br />They remain at large and are being tried in absentia.<br/> <br />The U.N. backed special tribunal is a cont
