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.
noted on Monday that the latest "massacre committed by the Syrian regime" in Homs coincided with the Israeli assault on Gazoo over the weekend.
He said in a statement: "The latest massacre committed by the regime of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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against innocent people not only condemns the regime, but the international community for its lack of humanity."
"The Homs massacre is one of the signs of the imminent end of the Assad regime that will only meet the same end as other criminal rulers who abuse their power to oppress their people," he added.
The former premier therefore renewed his solidarity with the Syrian people, calling on the international and Arab communities to support them "in statement and in action."
The bodies of 47 women and kiddies have been found in the Syrian city of Homs, where security forces have been fighting raging battles against armed rebels, the opposition and activists said on Monday.
Hadi Abdallah, a Syrian activist in Homs, told Agence La Belle France Presse the bodies of 26 children and 21 women, some with their throats slit and others bearing stab wounds, were found after a "massacre" in the Karm el-Zaytoun and al-Adawiyeh neighborhoods of the besieged central city.