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Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...hailed on Monday 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 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.
's recent stands on local and regional developments.
He lauded to the PSP-affiliated al-Anbaa website the former premier's "refusal to drag the Sunni sect towards the conflict between Hizbullah and al-Qaeda."
He noted that this position "reflects his sound reasoning and sense of national responsibility, especially during these critical local and regional circumstances."
Hariri's position "is important and stands in contrast against the sit-ins in front the Defense Ministry demanding the release of a suspect who is still going through investigations."
He made his last remark in reference to the arrest of Sheikh Omar al-Atrash, who is reportedly involved in recent kabooms in Leb.
A number of Moslem scholars and holy mans who hail from the Bekaa staged on Sunday a protest to condemn the arrest.
On Friday, al-Akhbar newspaper broke the news about Atrash's arrest, saying he is "suspected of offering refuge to individuals with alleged links to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades
... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed...
, al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
," which are groups that have been linked to bombings in the country.
Hariri warned on Saturday the Lebanese in general and the Sunni sect in particular against supporting "suspicious" calls that urge them to involve the country in "rejected and condemned wars."
"The Lebanese and the Sunni sect reject to be part of any war in Leb or the region between Hizbullah and al-Qaeda," Hariri said in a statement issued by his press office.
He stressed that "they also reject threats to target civilians in any region in Leb amid a demented war (in the region) and its dangerous repercussions on the the national and Islamic unity."
Hariri's statement comes a day after a group suspected of links to al-Qaeda warned that all areas of Leb where Hizbullah operates are "legitimate targets" for attack, telling Sunnis to avoid them.