[An Nahar] Former premier 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 Wednesday said the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council must endorse a Qatari proposal to dispatch Arab troops to revolt-hit Syria, where the regime's crackdown on protests has cost more than 5,400 lives since March, according to U.N. estimates.
Answering a question on the social networking website Twitter, Hariri also said his opposition March 14
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camp was being "attacked" because it is at the "core" of the Arab Spring sweeping across the region.
Asked when he would return to Leb, Hariri tweeted in English: "You will wake up soon and hear the news."
The Qatari proposal could be discussed at a meeting of 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...
foreign ministers over the weekend but is not on the agenda, Adnan Khodeir, the Syria chief of operations for the League, said on Wednesday.
Syria has flatly rejected Qatar's call to send Arab troops to the country and on Wednesday Syrian state media accused Doha of arming and financing opponents of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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's regime.
Activists say an Arab League observer mission has failed to stop the bloodshed since it deployed on December 26 in Syria.