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.
on Sunday said "the justification attempted today for Leb's shameful vote in 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...
is simply unacceptable," in a clear reference to the remarks voiced earlier in the day by President Michel Suleiman and Premier
Najib Miqati."Those claiming to want to keep Leb neutral and shielded from Syria's repercussions have thrown the country in the middle of the storm and on the wrong side -- the side of murder, dictatorship and anti-Arab identity," Hariri said on the social networking website Twitter.
"They will be judged by the Lebanese and the Arabs and by history for their immoral and subservient abandonment of all national and human dignity," he tweeted in English.
"Despite the actions of this shameful government, we will forever remain Lebanese Arabs, democrats and freedom lovers," he added.
Addressing the vaporous Arab League's recent suspension of Syria's membership over its regime's unrelenting crackdown on dissent, Suleiman said Sunday that Leb rejects that any Arab country be isolated.
"Isolation cuts off means for dialogue and no Syrian must feel that he is no longer an Arab," he stated, calling Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
to "implement the Arab League initiative."
Leb supports democracy and it does not support the pursuit of political goals through violence, the president added.
Miqati, for his part, said "Leb's position at the Arab League stemmed from historical and geographic considerations that we know our Arab brothers are aware of."
"We have ignored pressures and set stability and averting strife as our goals," Miqati continued.