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.has said he plans on traveling back to Leb by Wednesday in time for his country’s independence day celebrations.
Hariri, speaking to news hounds after meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Gay Paree, said he will be speaking with Lebanese President
Michel Aoun...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
upon his arrival and discuss the matter of his recent resignation as prime minister.
Leb will mark Independence Day on Wednesday and there have been concerns about whether Hariri will attend the annual celebrations. The ceremony is usually headed by the president, prime minister and parliament speaker.
It is the first official comment on when Hariri is likely to be back in Beirut since his Nov. 4 resignation through a broadcast on a Saudi-owned TV station from Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
NNA quoted a presidential statement saying that Hariri informed the president that he arrived in Gay Paree with his wife earlier Saturday.