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| Hariri Urges Supporters to Rally En Mass in Tripoli |
| 2011-11-27 |
| [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. urged his supporters on Saturday via twitter to join al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... rally in Tripoli. "I invite you to join en mass the Independence Day rally in Tripoli to revive the Taif accord and to announce solidarity with the Syrian people," Hariri said on the social networking website twitter. "The Taif accord was and is still Leb's only salvation," Hariri added. Al-Mustaqbal movement is gearing up for a mass rally it is planning to hold in the northern city of Tripoli on Sunday on the occasion of Independence Day. The rally will be held under the slogan of 'The Fall of Arms and the Spring of Independence' at the Rashid Karami International Fair Complex. Hariri, who has been absent from the country for nearly eight months, has chosen Twitter as a comeback tool to reach out to followers. The ex-premier, who left Leb in April after Hizbullah and its allies toppled his government, popped up on Twitter earlier this month, creating an instant buzz and attracting some 25,000 followers so far. |
| Posted by:Fred |