Lebanese TV: Prime Minister Hariri submits resignation of government

Jerusalem Post ^ | Apr. 15, 2003 | THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF

[yonif]

Lebanese Television is reporting that Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Al-Hariri, handed in his resignation Tuesday night to President Emile Lahoud.

Lahod reportedly accepted his Prime Minister's resignation and is expected to ask Hariri's replacement, as yet unknown, to establish a new government.

Lebanese TV did not provide a reason for Hariri's resignation.

Hariri submitted his Cabinet's resignation to President Emile Lahoud after a meeting at the presidential palace Tuesday night.

Lahoud asked Hariri to continue as caretaker until a new prime minister is appointed and a Cabinet formed.

Hariri is widely expected to be asked to form the next government.

Hariri, a dynamic 58-year-old billionaire businessman who made his fortune in Saudi Arabia, has served as prime minister since 1992 except for the years 1998-2000.

He is credited for launching a multibillion-dollar program to rebuild Lebanon's infrastructure from the ruins of the 1975-90 civil war. Critics, however, blame him for borrowing heavily on international markets.

(With The Associated Press)

[justshe]

But can we gain any monthly donors?
(Oops....sorry......slaps self!)

[Grampa Dave]

Okay get your act together or we will have line up to group slap you like that woman who paniced on Airplane.

Seriously go back to Phil's reply and his links re the dam "breaking" in Syria last year.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/893858/posts?page=40#40

Phil, thank you as usual with your great data.

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894701/posts

You were correct:

"So far, the United States has shut down the Iraqi-Syrian oil pipeline, which produced revenues of about $1.2 billion a year for the Assad regime.

"Since 2000, the pipeline had brought up to 250,000 barrels of Iraqi oil per day to Syria, which were then sold abroad.

"We have been told that they have shut off a pipeline," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. "Whether it's the only one, and whether that has completely stopped the flow of oil between Iraq and Syria, I cannot tell you. We do not have perfect knowledge. We do know that they were instructed to shut it down, and they have told us that they have."

[winner3000]

Hariri rebuilt the commerce center of Lebanon using international loans. The construction was very expensive. Once completed, Lebanon ended up with beautiful buildings that not many people could afford lease for their businesses. Most of the office space remains empty while Lebanon suffers under the crushing debt. Another example of how things can go wrong when governments get involved.

By the way, people who owned the land and stores before the reconstruction were forced to sell to the government for shares of a consortium called Solidere. It goes without saying that the shares did not do well!

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