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...Hariri, who has been prime minister three times, is the Sunni community’s most influential leader thanks to his father Rafiq, Lebanon’s celebrated post-civil war premier....
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...The tensions recall the international tribunal that investigated the 2005 assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri....
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...Hariri was assassinated on Beirut’s waterfront on February 14 2005....
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...The project embodied by Rafiq Hariri, a Sunni leader backed by Europe and the Gulf, was to turn Beirut into the capital market and services entrepôt of the Middle East, with its city as regional playground...
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...In 2005, after Rafiq Hariri was assassinated, Jacques Chirac arrived uninvited, snubbed the then president and went straight to the slain prime minister’s Beirut home....
...He seems to have been opposed to the assassination in February that year of Rafiq Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister, in which Damascus was implicated....
...The Rutland Gate property was converted from four town houses in the 1980s and was once home to the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, who was assassinated in 2005....
...Before he became Lebanon’s prime minister in 1992, Rafiq al-Hariri — who was assassinated in 2005 — was a construction tycoon who controlled Lebanese lender BankMed....
...The last time the Lebanese rose up in similar numbers, in 2005, their protests were against Syria, accused of assassinating Rafiq Hariri, a beloved leader (and father of the current prime minister)....
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