Saad Hariri
Relatives of abducted Lebanese Shiite Muslim pilgrims, who were kidnapped in northern Syria, celebrate their release by holding a national flag as they wait for their arrival at Beirut International Airport on May 25, 2012. The 13 pilgrims arrived in Turkey after being set free by their Syrian kidnappers and took off with a private plane owned by former billionaire prime minister Saad Hariri to fly home.
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I am sure that during this crucial year, you will say every day, until elections day, especially on elections day, you will say democratically with your votes at the ballot boxes that the people want to overthrow the regime
We succeeded in preventing them from throwing Lebanon and the Lebanese people into a civil war, [weapons] have no function other than to weaken the state and falsify the democratic will of the voters by intimidating them
Some want parliamentary elections that suit the armed partisan authorities, and they promote election laws that restore regimes of tutelage and domination but with local tools this timeMore quotes »
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