[Washington Post] Nora Boustany - Lebanese parliament member Saad Hariri, the son and political heir of slain former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, told President Bush Thursday that he feared neighboring Syria was still determined to obstruct Lebanon's upcoming presidential election and destabilize the region. "There is a killing machine that has started killing the majority and it has not stopped," Hariri said in an interview, referring to a string of assassinations of anti-Syrian Lebanese legislators. "We believe that somehow, that the Syrian regime will stop the elections from happening." "At the end of the day, what the Syrians want is terrorism, and what we want is democracy," he said.
2007-10-05 01:00:00Full ArticleBACK Visit the Daily Alert Archive