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Revision as of 18:55, 21 July 2004 by 170.140.120.21 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Rafiq Bahaa Edine Hariri (born 1944) is a Lebanese billionaire businessman, and currently the Prime Minister of Lebanon. He worked in Saudi Arabia in the 1970s, making huge sums of money in a very short period of time, ending up a powerful construction tycoon. He later became a citizen of Saudi Arabia in 1978, and became Arabia's emissary to Lebanon. He was prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998, then again from 2000.
Hariri is popular mainly due to his financial wealth, and hated by many due to the corruption that reigns under his government.
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