Rafik Hariri
Rafik Baha ad-Din Hariri (Arabic: رفيق بهاءالدين الحريري; November 1, 1944 – February 14, 2005) was a Lebanese billionaire and businessman. He was Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998, and he became Prime Minister again in 2000. But on October 20, 2004, he quit his job. He helped a lot in rebuilding Beirut, which was damaged from the fighting during the civil war.
Death
Hariri was killed along with 21 other people on February 14, 2005 by a truck bomb. A thousand kilograms of TNT exploded in a van near his car. His car was passing through St. George Hotel in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. People are still trying to learn who did it, and the United Nations have helped to investigate. Serge Brammertz is leading this investigation. Many people in Lebanon said that the government of Syria and its allies did it.[1] So far, Brammertz said that DNA evidence collected from the exploded area shows that the killing was done by a young man who blew himself up at the time.[2]
Rafik Hariri Media
Hariri's former residence in Paris
Beirut Central District, which was developed significantly under Hariri's tenure as Prime Minister.
U.S. President George W. Bush and Hariri meeting in the White House
Hariri meeting with Donald Rumsfeld at The Pentagon on April 25, 2001
Hariri with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2001
Hariri and Rumsfeld in 2001
A statue of Hariri in Beirut near the assassination site
References
- ↑ "www.washtimes.com".
- ↑ "UN probe into murder of former Lebanese leader nears sensitive stage – inquiry chief". UN News. 18 December 2006. Archived from the original on 30 April 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2019.