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| Hariri Expresses 'Full Solidarity' with Syrian People |
| 2011-08-30 |
| [An Nahar] Former prime minister Saad Hariri Second 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 Monday extended his greetings to the Syrian people on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, expressing his "full solidarity" with the Syrians in the face of their regime's violent crackdown on the protest movement. Hariri also extended Eid al-Fitr greetings to "the Lebanese people in general and the Mohammedans in particular." "On this special occasion, he (Hariri) pays tribute to the Syrian people, and expresses once again his full solidarity with them in the face of the difficult ordeal they are enduring, hoping that before the next Eid the Arab peoples and the Syrian people in particular would manage to overcome the difficult circumstances they are going through," Hariri's press office said in a statement. Hariri also hoped the Syrians and Arabs will "achieve their aspirations for regimes that meet their ambitions." "He also wishes the Lebanese many happy returns, and to see their State-building project prevail and bring security and stability to Leb, and strengthen the bonds of national unity and solidarity among all Lebanese, in their quest to uncover the truth and achieve justice, as a guarantee for security for Leb and all the Lebanese," Hariri's press office added. |
| Posted by:Fred |