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Thursday, May 04, 2006
Hariri is not corrupt! (and I am not Angry; and Abu Mazen is very popular; and Karzai is not a puppet). So I read in Hariri rag, Al-Mustaqbal about this revealing and explosive article on Hariri assassination in Fortune magazine. So I thought that I may take a look. Judge for yourselves. All those cited were members of Hariri Inc; every one of them. And the premise is crazy: that Hariri was killed because he was fighting corruption. Hariri was the mid-wife of mega-corruption in Beirut, and his sponsorship by the Syrian regime for all those years is because he expanded corruption in Lebanon, and let it spill over to Syria and the leaders of the Syrian security apparatus. And Hariri and his entourage were close to Ghazalah and to Al-Madinah Bank. Don't forget that none other than Butrus Harb, a major March 14th figure, was the official lawyer of the Bank.