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Hariri Says People to Peacefully Oust Miqati
[An Nahar] Former prime minister Saad HaririSecond son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. on Sunday received phone calls from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzlaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Elihu B. Washburne... , French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and U.N. chief  the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , who offered him condolences on the liquidation of Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan and his bodyguard Ahmed Suhyouni. "During the phone calls, discussions also tackled the developments which Leb is witnessing after the heinous liquidation. (Ex-)Premier Hariri stressed that the Lebanese people are staging a civil, democratic movement to overthrow the government of Premier  Najib Miqati, adding that March 14 forces will boycott the government until it falls, as it is the product of the Syrian-Iranian axis and is working to achieve the interests and influence of this axis at the expense of the interests and security of Leb and its people," Hariri's office said in a statement.Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... Speaker Nabih KnobbyBerri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... received a phone call from Fabius that tackled the rapid developments in Leb. The French minister also telephoned Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid WallyJumblat ...  Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling.... The PSP's media department said Fabius stressed during the conversation La Belle France's solidarity with Leb amid this sensitive period as well as French President Francois Hollande's ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... permanent support for the Lebanese state and all the Lebanese. Al-Hasan was killed in a powerful car booming that rocked Ashrafiyeh on Friday and left at least three people dead and more than 100 maimed. In a televised address later on Sunday, Hariri said: "Our call for the government's departure is not lust for power." "Toppling the government is the only way towards real dialogue in the country," he noted. "What we want is to topple the government democratically and peacefully and we are not advocates of violence," Hariri added. "Today, after the martyrdom of Wissam al-Hasan, we have taken a stance and we won't heed the advices of some countries that are saying that this government is in Leb's interest," Hariri stressed. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-22 |
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