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Rafic Hariri
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Rafic Hariri's Biography

Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri — (November 1, 1944 – February 14, 2005), (Arabic: رفيق بهاء الدين الحريري‎), a self-made billionaire and business tycoon, was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation, 20 October 2004. He headed five cabinets during his tenure. Hariri dominated the country's post-war political and business life and is widely credited with reconstructing Beirut after the 15-year civil war, but also for the widespread corruption that followed the war and the crippling damages done to the economy, with the public debt rising from $2.5 billion to over $40 billion and economic growth slowing from 8% to -1% during his time as prime minister.

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  • Kiss the Independence Intifada goodbye

    Beirut : Lebanon | 3 days ago

    The death of the Independence Intifada of 2005 has been prematurely announced many times. However, today we have in front of us  a genuine corpse, the end of the fleeting aspiration four years ago, ...

  • Hajjar: Hariri would visit Syria when time is right

    Beirut : Lebanon | 8 days ago

    In an interview with Al-Manar television on Friday, Lebanon First bloc MP Mohammad al-Hajjar said that Prime Minister Saad Hariri would visit Syria when the “time is right.” Hajjar touched on ...

  • Al-Watan says Sleiman’s trip prelude to Hariri’s “national duty...

    Beirut : Lebanon | 8 days ago

    Syrian newspaper Al-Watan said on Friday that President Michel Slieman’s visit to Damascus on Thursday was a “prelude” to Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s “national duty” to visit Syria, which ...

  • A Sheep Is Born

    Beirut : Lebanon | 14 days ago

    Well no one thought that the government was going to be a lion or a bear but some of us held to the strange belief that maybe this time around the cabinet formation process in Lebanon will take a ...

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  • News Source: Jerusalem Post | about 17 hours ago
    It would seem that Syria suffered a major defeat last week with the formation of a Lebanese national unity government. Syria has for years fought long and hard to keep Lebanon under its thumb, but in 2004, with the assassination of former prime
  • News Source: The Daily Star | 1 day ago
    The ministerial committee tasked with drafting the policy statement for Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s newly formed government is holding extensive meetings to finalize its mission before Independence Day on November 22. However, the issue of
  • News Source: The Daily Star | 2 days ago
    The death of the Independence Intifada of 2005 has been prematurely announced many times. However, today we have in front of us  a genuine corpse, the end of the fleeting aspiration four years ago, at least in its more restricted form, of

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  • Blog Source: friday-lunch-club.blogspot.com | about 22 hours ago
    King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who had shunned Syria since Rafik Hariri was murdered, invited Bashar Assad to visit his country, and later visited Damascus himself; France and the United States sent emissaries to Syria; and finally, ...
  • Blog Source: joshualandis.com | about 22 hours ago
    Amid accusations by Washington of Syrian complicity in allowing insurgents into Iraq, and allegations that Damascus may have had a hand in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, momentum stalled. ...
  • Blog Source: calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com | about 22 hours ago
    Assad has several personal achievements of this kind to his credit: Syrian involvement in the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri is well-known; Syria is developing chemical weapons of mass-destruction, and has tried ...

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