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	Lebanon: The Return (?) of Rafiq al-Hariri, The Estimate, September 8, 2000
		Rafiq Baha’ al-Din al-Hariri was born in November 1944 in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon (Saida), the eldest of three children of a Lebanese farming family of modest means.
		Hariri is usually described as a man of enormous ambitions; in person he certainly comes across as a man who enjoys his wealth but is also determined to use it for maximum influence, in philanthropy but also in politics.
		Hariri’s premiership was not always as popular as the size of his victory might lead one to believe; many distrusted the role of money in consolidating his power, and questioned the awarding of reconstruction contracts.
	www.theestimate.com /public/090800.html (2349 words)

	iranian.com: Cyrus Rasti, Lebanon assassination, Rafiq Hariri
		Rafiq Hariri was the face of Lebanon; he was a dominant figure both financially and politically.
		Hariri was opposed to Syria's role in Lebanon's internal affairs.
		Rafiq Hariri's death was a great blow to the people of Lebanon and this tragedy had become much bigger than Lebanon for it has struck terror into those who want to bring freedom and prosperity to a region that is very much deficient in these two things.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/2005/February/Lebanon/index.html (1620 words)

	Dossier: Rafiq Hariri (July 2001)
		Rafiq Bahaa Edine Hariri was born in the Lebanese town of Sidon in 1944, the son of a Sunni Muslim farmer and greengrocer.
		By the summer of 1992, Hariri was at the helm of reconstruction planning in the capital, which many had already begun to dub "Haririgrad." Having purchased major shares in several radio and television stations, newspapers and magazines, Hariri was soon being hailed by the Lebanese media as an economic savior.
		Hariri is reported to have channeled an estimated 3.2 billion francs to the political campaigns of French President Jacques Chirac and his allies.
	www.meib.org /articles/0107_ld1.htm (3827 words)

	Rafik Hariri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hariri was assassinated on 14 February 2005 when explosives equivalent to around 1000 kg of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove past the St George Hotel in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
		In 1978 Hariri was made a citizen of Saudi Arabia by the Saudi royal family as a reward for the high quality of his entrepreneurial services, and became the kingdom's emissary to Lebanon.
		Hariri was well regarded among international leaders, counting French President Jacques Chirac as a close friend, and enjoying the record of being the political figure most often received by the French President.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rafiq_Hariri (3002 words)

	Islamica Magazine - Rafiq Hariri
		Rafiq Hariri was that incredibly rare kind of Arab politician, one of the few who was liked, if not adored, by so many of his countrymen.
		In a region normally defined by apathy and hopelessness, Hariri’s rise from the poor son of a grocer to self-made billionaire, was an inspiration, a success story: the stuff of which films are made.
		Hariri’s admirers credit him with single-handedly carrying the country out of the ashes of war and into an era of renewed rebuilding and growth.
	www.islamicamagazine.com /content/view/86/61 (754 words)

	Rafiq Hariri: Driving Force Behind Beirut Reconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rafiq Hariri was born in Lebanon in 1944, the son of a Sunni Muslim farmer and grocer.
		Hariri was a major financier of opposing militias in Lebanon during the country's civil war, which lasted from 1975 to 1990.
		Hariri was again appointed prime minister after he and his political allies swept to power in parliamentary elections.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-02-14-voa42.cfm (668 words)

	The Hariri Assassination
		Born on Nov. 1, 1944, Rafiq Hariri was the son of poor farm workers from the southern city of Sidon, and was brother to Shafik and to Bahiya—also an MP in the Lebanese Parliament.
		Hariri never spoke out publicly against Syria in the dispute, but his resignation in September 2004 was taken as a clear protest against the Syrian pressure to keep Lahoud in office and the country’s interference in Lebanon’s political affairs.
		Hariri, a businessman who made a fortune in Saudi Arabia and then ruled Lebanon for 10 of the last 15 years, enjoyed close personal ties with French President Jacques Chirac and cultivated friendly relations with Washington, where he owned one large house and was in the process of building a colossal mansion.
	www.wrmea.com /archives/April_2005/0504010.html (5639 words)

	Rafiq al-Hariri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hariri was appointed as prime minister in 1992, when his country needed a savior to make it recover from the destruction of the war.
		Hariri’s supporters praise him as the savior of Lebanon’s war-devastated economy, but critics claim that his administration was corrupt and that it saddled the country with huge debts.
		Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005, in a massive explosion outside the St. George Hotel in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
	www.aljazeera.com /cgi-bin/review/people_full_story.asp?service_id=7096 (762 words)

	Rafik Hariri - Hariri.info
		The late Rafik Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005 when explosives equivalent to around 300 kg of C4 were detonated as his motorcade drove past the Saint George Hotel in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
		Somewhat later, in 1978, Hariri became a citizen of Saudi Arabia as a reward from the Saudi royal family for the high quality of his entrepreneurial services, and became the kingdom's emissary to Lebanon.
		Hariri was well regarded among international leaders counting French President Jacques Chirac as a close friend, enjoying the envied record of being the political figure most often received by the French President.
	www.hariri.info (706 words)

	Ain-Al-Yaqeen - February 18, 2005 - Article 2
		Hariri was known to travel in a convoy of bullet proof cars that were equipped with systems to thwart the remote-controlled detonation of explosives.
		The Hariri family eulogized him to the Lebanese people as "the martyr of national unity" in a statement in which his supporters were called upon to resort to calmness.
		Hariri (60 year old) presided over the government in Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and then from 2000 to October 2004 when he resigned and moved to the lines of the opposition.
	www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20050218/feat2en.htm (4104 words)

	Scoop: Rafiq Hariri's Assassination - Syrial Killer?
		Rafiq Hariri appeared in the Lebanese political scene during the 1980s, when he acted as Saudi Arabia’s personal emissary to the different protagonists of the civil war in Lebanon, and mediated frequently between Damascus and the various political figures in Lebanon.
		In 2004 Rafiq Hariri decided to switch to the Lebanese opposition, which benefited from this move as it received from him not only a huge financial support, but got also through his international contacts (ranging for President Chirac to the Sheiks of the Persian Gulf) a vast diplomatic and political support.
		Hariri was in good terms with the American administration as his media empire was aligned over the American viewpoints especially vis-à-vis the ‘war on terror’ and the Iraqi situation.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0503/S00027.htm (1794 words)

	Online NewsHour: Newsmaker: Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri -- April 16, 2002
		Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri discusses the prospects for regional peace in the Middle East on the eve of his meeting with President Bush.
		Hariri, a billionaire businessman, was reappointed prime minister in 2000 after his party won a landslide majority in parliament.
		PRIME MINISTER HARIRI: Yes, and this needs a big word from the United States and they have to do something very important, and they have to do not only condemning the action of the Israeli government or asking the Arabs to condemn other attacks from the Palestinians, condemnation is not enough anymore.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june02/lebanon_4-16.html (1962 words)

	Middle East Online
		BEIRUT - Lebanese MP Saad Hariri, the son of slain ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, has accused Syria's "terrorist regime" of seeking to topple the government in Lebanon, newspapers said Thursday.
		Rafiq Hariri's assassination in a Beirut bomb blast on February 14 led to protests and international pressure that forced Syria to end its 29-year military presence in its smaller neighbour.
		The parliamentary majority led by Hariri and influential Druze leader MP Walid Jumblatt has refused any political compromise and continues to demand the truth about Rafiq Hariri's killing.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/syria/?id=15294 (370 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Who Killed Rafiq Hariri?
		The day before he died, Hariri said he was not afraid of being assassinated, reports Rosana Bou Monsef of the Daily Star.
		Hariri resigned as prime minister to protest Syria's involvement in Lebanon's affairs, but did not vote in parliament against the extension of Lahoud's term.
		Hariri's backers said it would be impossible to smuggle 300 kilograms of explosives into the center of the capital" without the knowledge of Syria's omnipresent security service.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A29296-2005Feb16?language=printer (813 words)

	Ain-Al-Yaqeen - January 6, 2006 - Article 9
		Hariri added that Lahoud had violated the constitution and extended his term against the people's will and did nothing but distort facts and conceal truths.
		MP Hariri's press office reminded President Emile Lahoud that the murdered leader had refused to form the first government under the head of state's "dismal" mandate because he did not want to participate in constitutional manipulation that aimed at weakening the post of Prime Minister.
		MP Hariri's press office also urged those who are committed to the role of the Presidency to advice those in need of counsel, and to prevent the Presidency from joining a smear campaign that is underway at the Syrian Parliament.
	www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20060106/feat9en.htm (2813 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Explosion kills former Lebanon PM
		Mr Hariri, who was also an MP, attended a session at parliament in central Beirut shortly before the blast.
		Mr Hariri has been the leading Lebanese politician since the end of the civil war in 1990, and prime minister for most of the last 15 years.
		Mr Hariri had recently joined calls by opposition politicians for a withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/4263893.stm (722 words)

	Reason: Man of Silk: Rafiq Hariri, R.I.P.
		Hariri, by a car bomb on the very waterfront he rebuilt after the country's 16-year civil war, is the worst news out of the Middle East in the last two years.
		The heavy-handed methods of Solidere in the 1990s, and the organization's virtual monopoly on local construction projects—roughly coinciding with Hariri's terms as prime minister—were nobody's model of a truly free market (i.e., one that operates through voluntary contract rather than government gamesmanship); and the buildings that resulted are frequently ugly, gaudy, unwelcoming, or all three.
		One of Hariri's habits as Prime Minister was a Reaganesque tendency to use deficit spending as a way to maintain good relations with political opponents.
	www.mafhoum.com /press7/228P4.htm (975 words)

	Rafiq Hariri: Visionary for Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The terrorist blast that murdered Rafiq Hariri did more than kill him and kill and maim so many others, it also struck like a knife cutting deep into the heart of the fragile Lebanon that Hariri so loved.
		For the youth born into war, or for the generation born abroad who had heard only stories of Beirut’s splendor, Hariri had given them, for the first time in their lives, something to be proud of.
		Hariri was right to constantly remind me, “It’s your country.” I obviously feel an affinity to the country of my parents.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0221-20.htm (903 words)

	JTW Interview - Interview with Rafiq Al Hariri
		Hariri stopped the Lebanese Pound's suicide and avoided the Second Republic the "revolution of the hungry." He averted Damascus social and economic troubles in Lebanon that might undermine the peace it administers in it.
		Hariri entered, as a great boxer, the arena that does not allow success and knock outs, especially that the major decisions are not taken within this arena.
		Hariri was given the premiership but not the essential keys for the rescue.
	www.turkishweekly.net /interview.php?id=56 (4734 words)

	Mossad, the CIA and Lebanon The assassination of Rafiq Hariri: who benefited? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The US media has responded predictably to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, echoing the bellicose threats of the Bush administration against Syria and amplifying unsubstantiated charges that the regime in Damascus was the author of the killing.
		The killing of Hariri has set the stage for the implementation of plans for US aggression against Syria that have long been nurtured by a group within the US administration that is closely tied to Israel and the right-wing Likud bloc, in particular.
		The murder of Rafiq Hariri constitutes a brutal warning that the US war in Iraq is only the beginning of a far broader campaign of military aggression aimed at crushing resistance to US and Israeli domination.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/feb2005/hari-f17.shtml (1952 words)

	indymedia beirut \| Who Killed Hariri? \| 20.02.2005 07:19
		Syria is being blamed for the assassinaton of Rafiq Hariri.
		Hariri’s family, the opposition, France and the United States all held Damascus responsible, directly or indirectly, for the murder.
		Hariri was killed in a huge explosion in Beirut which also claimed the lives of additional 16 people.
	beirut.indymedia.org /ar/2005/02/2196.shtml (1499 words)

	Josh's Weblog: Rafiq Hariri
		Hariri's assassination was the “proximate cause” of Ambassador Margaret Scobey's return and that Syria's “stated reason” for its de facto occupation of Lebanon “the country's internal security” is no longer valid.
		It was during this time that Rafiq Hariri came to power and worked hard to revitalize the country and its economy.
		Hariri resigned last year amid opposition to a Syrian-backed constitutional amendment that enabled his rival, the pro-Damascus [Emile] Lahoud, to extend his term as Lebanon's president.
	pun.org /josh/archives/2005/02/rafiq_hariri_1.html (1697 words)

	Headline News :: World News Blogs :: Background on Syria and the Rafiq Hariri Investigation
		U.N. investigator Detlef Mehlis is probing whether the Syrian government was behind the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri last February.
		Hariri, who had initially collaborated with the Syrians out of necessity, was leading his country to greater independence from Syrian when he was killed on a Beirut street by a sophisticated remote control bomb.
		The outraged Lebanese population suspected Syria was behind Hariri's death and staged massive demonstrations that ultimately forced the Syrians to withdraw their military forces from the country and to cooperate with the U.N. investigation.
	www.bloggossip.com /index.php?id=5296 (395 words)

	Speakers Profiles- Arab Strategy Forum 2004
		His Excellency Rafiq Hariri served as Lebanon’s Prime Minister for over ten years from 1992, leading the reconstruction of the country, ravaged after 17 years of civil war.
		Hariri worked for 28 years in Saudi Arabia as a successful entrepreneur.
		Hariri founded the Hariri Foundation, a non-profit organization that helped educate more than 30,000 Lebanese students in top universities in Lebanon, the U.S., the U.K., France and Canada.
	www.dubaistrategy.com /rafiq.htm (122 words)

	Amazon.ca: Rafiq Hariri and the Fate of Lebanon: Books: Marwan Iskandar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On Valentine's Day 2005, self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade.
		Hariri was mourned as a Lebanese martyr, and his death triggered the protests that led to the withdrawal of Syrian forces in April of 2005.
		From his humble beginnings as a fruit picker, Hariri achieved fame and fortune as a construction magnate in Saudi Arabia.
	www.amazon.ca /Rafiq-Hariri-Lebanon-Marwan-Iskandar/dp/0863563708 (384 words)

	"Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri is my friend" Bill Clinton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Syrian government killed Rafiq Hariri, because they are afraid that Lebanon would not just be sovereign if they pulled out their forces, but might in time be dominated by another power, be it Israel or the US, which is more likely.
		The most interesting articles were the ones dealing with the UN report pertaining to the international investigation into the murder of Rafiq Hariri.
		Rafiq Hariri isn’t just some politician and Lebanon isn’t just some country in the Arab world.
	www.1stbusinesslebanon.com /ind05/bill.html (2244 words)

	Middle East Online
		BEIRUT - Saad Hariri, the son and anointed heir of assassinated former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, is more at ease in the world of business than the rough-and-tumble of politics.
		Supporters of Saad, Rafiq Hariri's second son by his first Iraqi wife, won all 19 seats in Beirut in the first round of the four-stage elections -- nine of them even before a vote was cast as rival candidates stood down.
		Cognisant of the new political era Lebanon is entering, Saad Hariri said he hopes to be able to implement some of the reforms his father championed.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/lebanon/?id=13635 (632 words)

	Reason Magazine - Man of Silk
		Some of these scenarios have been ominous, some mixed, some embarrassingly optimistic, but today we have new proof of just how useless this kind of futurist pud-pulling is when faced with the chaos of history.
		The assassination of former Lebanese prime minister and reconstruction mastermind Hariri, by a car bomb on the very waterfront he rebuilt after the country's 16-year civil war, is the worst news out of the Middle East in the last two years.
		Hariri is an odd choice for assassination given how much more vociferous Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has been in his opposition to the Syrian occupation.
	www.reason.com /news/show/33993.html (913 words)

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