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Hariri: Hizbullah Has Ruined Fraternal Ties among Lebanese People
[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 assassination. 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. lamented on Thursday Hizbullah's fighting in Syria, which has ruined "the fraternal ties among the Lebanese people, especially between Sunnis and Shiites." He said in an address to the Lebanese people: "Leb needs, now more than ever, the word of truth against the oppressive arms." "The word of truth will halt the Iranian wars against the Lebanese people and their land," he declared. "The word of truth will help liberate Leb from the illegitimate weapons and the hegemony of gangs," he added. "No matter how many rockets these groups possess, they will never, at the end of the day, be able to create strife and break the unity of the state and the dignity of the people," Hariri stressed. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-14 |
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