Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri will be attending the Wednesday independence day parade in Beirut after all, having finally arrived in Lebanon Tuesday evening to end weeks overseas, during which his fate had been highly questioned.
Even Tuesday it wasn’t totally clear what would happen. He visited Egypt early in the day, as planned, but then detoured last minute to Cyprus when he was supposed to be en route to Beirut, meeting with the Cypriot leader.
Hariri “resigned” early this month while in Saudi Arabia, though the Saudis are accused of having forced him to make this announcement, and he has promised “clarifications” now that he’s back in Lebanon.
That’s not likely to be for a day, at least, with independence day celebrations expected before his meeting with Lebanese President Michael Aoun, and his public statement coming only after that.
Like most everyone else in the world, Mr. Hariri has a boss, and like everyone else in the world, he has to do what the boss says. Even if the boss keeps calling up and saying stuff like ‘quick, I need you to stop at Cyprus for a quick chat’ when he’s publicly told the world that he’s going to Beirut. It takes a boss to make a man look silly and inconsistent.
I’m impressed by how elegantly they handle it. Instead of yelling bloody murder because the Saudis abducted Hariri and forced him to resign – a justified move but it would put the Saudis on the spot – Hariri offers his resignation and the president refuses. They’re not out of trouble but they saved face for the Saudis.
His wife and children remain in Saudi Arabia.
That will keep him biting his tongue and on-script.
There are reports that Hariri’s wife joined him in Paris, but two children are still in KSA.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lebanons-pm-hariri-beirut-days-51253305
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