Sunday, May 29, 2005

Sa`d Al-Hariri has been tutored in Lebanese dialect. Many Beirutis recently complained that Sa`d Al-Hariri's Saudi dialect is too hard to understand. A tutor was brought in, and his accent has become more Beiruti. Here, he speaks to the Washington Post about his decision to seek--or buy, in the tradition of his father--the prime ministership of Lebanon. When asked "who rules Lebanon"? He simply said: "the Europeans, the Americans and the Gulf States." I never thought that I would agree with a Hariri but here I agree fully. In another point of the interview, Hariri reversed his earlier and other statements on Hizbullah by saying: "We will disarm them." That will be quite a spectacle. When Hariri takes his supporters from Tariq Al-Jadidah to disarm Hizbullah. Good luck Sa`d.