[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.
noted on Friday that some members of the Lebanese government are seeking to drag Leb onto a path of terrorism through covering up the Syrian regime's crimes.
He made his statements in light of the twin kabooms that took place in Damascus
...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations...
earlier on Friday and the Syrian Foreign Ministry's statements that Leb had warned earlier this week that members of al-Qaeda had infiltrated the country.
Hariri said via Twitter: "The Syrian Foreign Ministry's statements are fabricated by it and some of its Lebanese pawns."
In addition, he stated that the regime in Syria "is specialized in exporting terrorism."
Asked if the bombings were a sign that the regime was targeting the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
observers, the former premier replied: "This is a great possibility."
"The regime does not hesitate to commit the most heinous of crimes," he stressed.
Arab League observers arrived in Syria on Thursday to monitor its implementation of a League initiative aimed at ending violence against anti-regime protesters.
Suicide bombers hit two security service bases in Damascus on Friday killing more than 30 people and casting a pall over the first day of work of an Arab observer mission intended to oversee an end to nine months of bloodshed.
The bombings, which officials blamed on al-Qaeda, were the first attacks against Syria's powerful security services in the heart of the capital since the uprising began and overshadowed new protests against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad's
Despoiler of Deraa...
regime.