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Eyad
Lebanon
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 Posted - 09/19/2005 : 6:18:41 PM
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A son has been born to Saad Hariri and he surprised many Lebanese by naming him Abdul-Aziz instead of Rafik Hariri Jr.
Saad's Syrian wife, Lara Azm, gave birth to Abdul-Aziz at a hospital in the Saudi Capital of Riyadh Sunday.
Sources at the Hariri household in Koreitem have been insisting that the family had taken a decision to name every newly born baby boy to the family Rafik Hariri Jr. But Saad has dissented.
Abdul-Aziz is the first name of the founder of Saudi Arabia's ruling Al-Saud dynasty and the father of the late King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, who rumors say he was the biological father of the slain Rafik Hariri, former PM of Lebanon, and the one who helped him make billions of dollars as a construction contractor in the oil wealthy desert kingdom and later become a prominent political figure in the Arab world.
Saad has been managing his father's business empire since 1996. He has said he would return to stay in Beirut soon after the birth of his third child. But how soon remains to be seen. He has lately been living in Paris since his election to the Lebanese parliament. |
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Justice For All
Lebanon
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Posted - 09/28/2005 : 10:34:00 PM
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| I like that. I think Rafiq was indeed the son of Fahd. They looked a lot alike. Many say that Rafiq's asassinatien fell so bad on Fahd that he died early. |
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Talal
Syria
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Posted - 10/01/2005 : 10:00:43 PM
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| Rumors say that long before he died, Fahd bi Abed El3aziz wanted the name Abed El3aziz to come back in the family. Rafic Hariri passed this wish onto his sons and Saad took it upon him to fulfill the wishes of his grandfather. |
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Eyad
Lebanon
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Posted - 10/09/2005 : 3:21:13 PM
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To put it in plain English:
Rafiq Hariri was the illegitimate son of the late Saudi King, Fahd bin Abdel-Aziz. He did not recognize him publically, because his mother was married to Baha'eddine when the affair happened. But he made sure the family had plenty of money to raise Rafiq.
When Rafiq became of age, he went to Saudi, to his father's kingdom. When Fahd became king in 1982. Rafiq's wealth began to multiply.
Rafiq has a son named Fahd. His is younger than Saad.
This makes Fahd bin Abdel-Aziz, the grandfather of Saad Hariri and Abdul-Aziz his great granpa.
Now that Saad has his first son, he named him Abdel-Aziz, hopefully one day he can reclaim the kingdom of his great great grandfather. |
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CIA Report
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Posted - 11/28/2005 : 09:28:06 AM
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The most prevalent rumor about Hariri in Beirut, and one that has had wide circulation inside the Washington policymaking community, is that Hariri was not the self-made billionaire that some commentators have so vociferously averred. Rather, he was the illegitimate son of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia — whose liaison with Hariri’s mother in Beirut gave the “self-made” billionaire access to the Saudi royal family, and its lucrative building contracts.
Therefore, tt is not surprising that the Saudis had a hand in making Hariri the most powerful figure in Lebanon for fifteen years. He couldn’t have done it without them. Nor is it much of a secret that after the Taif Accords that ended the Lebanon Civil War were signed in Saudi Arabia in October of 1989, it was the Saudis who promoted Hariri as a figure of unity — a businessman who could unite Lebanon’s factions. The U.S. government agreed with the Saudis, interviewed their nominee, and both countries then convinced Hafez al-Assad that Hariri could be trusted to focus on rebuilding Lebanon, and keep his nose out of international politics. The Americans brought Israel into the mix and gained acceptance of Hariri’s candidacy from a country that was desperate to have some stability on its northern border.
“There were basically two ponzi schemes involved in all of this,” a foreign intelligence analyst says. “The first is the scheme that allowed Hariri to become rich. There’s no doubt that he was a talented businessman, but don’t kid yourself. You don’t win Saudi construction contracts on the basis of open source bidding. The second was the scheme that made him prime minister. It’s not like he was elected: the Americans, Saudis, Syrians and Israelis were all a part of an agreement. The Lebanese were pretty far down the list.” Scheme or not, the plan worked.
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Saad Hariri names new son Abdul-Aziz!
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