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| Mufti's Son Assaulted, Al-Mustaqbal Denies Involvement |
| 2012-03-02 |
| [An Nahar] Four men have assaulted Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani's son at a restaurant in Beirut's seafront of Raouche, the Dar al-Fatwa's press office said. The statement said that Sheikh Ragheb Qabbani was "beaten by "provocateurs while having lunch at a Beirut restaurant" on Wednesday. The men also cursed him and his father, it said. Following the incident, ex-PM 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. 's Future News denied that the assailants were al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement members. The denial came after Hizbullah's al-Manar TV said Qabbani's son was assaulted by Hariri's al-Mustaqbal supporters. Relations between the mufti and the movement deteriorated last year when Qabbani held talks with a Hizbullah delegation and Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali. |
| Posted by:Fred |