I'm wondering if he is being set up for assassination and martyrdom they way his father (and Benazir Bhutto) was.
Got Syrian troops out last time (cui bono); maybe they could get USraeli troops in?
"Leading Sunni politician returns to Lebanon as extremists gain footing" Associated Press August 09, 2014
BEIRUT — Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri, considered Lebanon’s most influential Sunni Muslim politician, returned unexpectedly to Lebanon Friday after three years of self-imposed exile.
His surprise return comes at a delicate time for the country after a week of bloody battles between the army and Sunni extremists from Syria have exacerbated Lebanon’s own simmering sectarian tensions.
The seizure by the militants of Arsal, a mostly Sunni town filled with Syrian refugees and surrounded by Shi’ite villages, has further entangled Lebanon into Syria’s catastrophic three-year-old civil war.
Gotta give the agenda-pushing war paper credit; they are consistent when it comes to the PNAC/Clean Break plan.
Hariri’s return is being seen as a bid to reassert his leadership over the Sunni community in Lebanon amid growing concern that many in the community are being radicalized by the increasingly sectarian war next door.
The revolt against Syrian President Bashar Assad is being overwhelmingly fought by Sunnis, many of them dominated by a radical Islamist ideology. The Lebanese Shi’ite militia Hezbollah has actively fought on the Syrian government side.
Yeah, I suspect that is why ISIS, or whatever the hell the propaganda front is being called these days, has cut a deal and is returning to Syria.
Talal Salman, editor in chief of the local As-Safir newspaper, wrote a front page open letter this week urging Hariri to return.
‘‘Your return through the gate of Arsal is necessary to protect Lebanon,’’ he wrote, warning that the Sunni Muslim community was drifting away from its traditional moderate leadership with Sunni extremists filling the void.
Hariri, a Saudi-backed politician, left Lebanon in January 2011 after his government was brought down by Hezbollah and its allies.
His return Friday comes as the Lebanese army tightened its control over Arsal, which was seized by the Syria-based Islamic extremists on Saturday. The militants withdrew Thursday, taking a number of the captive Lebanese soldiers and policemen with them.
I was told yesterday they made deals for a return of their guys, but that was yesterday.
Page George Orwell, will ya? Tell him he was 30 years off.
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UPDATE: Hariri To Use Saudi $1Billion To Force Hezbollah Out of Syria
Looks like Lebanon is about to make the agenda-pu$hing paper a lot.
