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Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.of the secret facility on his State visit in March and expressed his concern about the threat the terror-organization poses for the country.
The missile factory could include the capability of manufacturing precision-guided missiles, according to an anonymous American source the report quoted.
"We have made it clear to the Lebanese government that Hezbollah is doing something inside Leb and that the danger of an escalation with Israel as a result is real," the source said, adding that "we made sure that all the information we have in this context is also in the hands of the Lebanese government."
In his address to the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
General Assembly in September, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hezbollah of shielding its massive missile stockpiles behind civilian buildings, including Beirut’s main airport.
Hezbollah had been trying to build infrastructure to convert ground-to-ground missiles to precision missiles in the Ouzai neighborhood of the Lebanese capital, near Beirut’s airport. Hezbollah officials reportedly made a conscious decision to transfer the center of gravity of this precision missile project ‐ which they have been dealing with for some time ‐ to that civilian space in the heart of the Lebanese capital, Netanyahu said.
One of the sites, according to Netanyahu, is inside a football stadium belonging to the Lebanese terrorist group. A second site near Rafic Hariri International Airport and a third sits some 500 meters from the airport’s landing strip, in the heart of the Ma’aganah residential neighborhood close full of residential buildings.
Hezbollah’s effort to build accurate and precise missiles ‐ facilitated by Iranian expertise, funding and guidance ‐ has been targeted by Israel on numerous occasions in Syria.