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Beirut Attack Is Latest in String of Targeted Killings

In Beirut, a bomb claimed the lives of an anti-Syrian member of parliament, his son and several others Wednesday. The explosion is the latest in a string of targeted killings stretching to the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri two years ago.

Peter Kenyon talks with Michele Norris.

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