[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.
slammed on Sunday the government for its "total disrespect of the lives of our citizens and our illusory sovereignty" given the recent unrest in northern Leb.
He said via Twitter: "The Lebanese are not surprised their government doesn't care if our citizens are killed and illusory sovereignty violated by Syrian regime."
"The killing of two Lebanese citizens and injuring of ten others by Syrian regime forces in North Leb yesterday is unacceptable," he stressed.
"The silence of the Lebanese government is even more unacceptable," he said.
"The least any government should do is lodge a protest with the regime's ambassador in Leb, if not 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...
and United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
," stated the former premier.
"In fact all Lebanese know this government was appointed to facilitate such crimes to begin with," Hariri noted.
Three people were killed and another seven injured on Saturday as shells and Rocket Propelled Grenades landed on the northern area of Wadi Khaled from the Syrian side of the border.