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 assassination. 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.
condemned on Tuesday Hizbullah's fighting in Syria alongside the Syrian regime, warning that it will drag Leb towards the strife that
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had "vowed to spread in the region."
He said in a statement: "Hizbullah's actions in Syria are a crime against Leb and the Lebanese and Syria and its people."
Hizbullah's fighting in Syria is a form of defense of the Syrian regime and not an act of defense of certain sectarian interests as the party had claimed, he continued.
"Who tasked Hizbullah with defending a segment of the Lebanese people in Syria?" he asked.
"Dragging Leb towards the game of death that the Syrian regime has actively sought once again proves Hizbullah's actual role in Leb and Syria and demonstrates, through the victims, destruction, and blood, the real purpose of the party's arms," stressed Hariri.
"The crime of leading Lebanese youths to death in Syria and in defense of a criminal regime is a part of a greater crime of dragging Leb towards a bloody regional strife that the Lebanese, starting with Hizbullah's supporters, do not seek," he declared.
"I therefore call on all Lebanese to express through peaceful means their rejection of this crime," he stated.