Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri is back in Lebanon, after weeks of being held nearly incommunicado in Saudi Arabia, forced to issue a since-retracted resignation, and reports that he was being held against his will. Everyone wants to know what really happened there, with so many rumors.
Hariri, however, is surprisingly tight-lipped on the question of his multi-week stay in Saudi Arabia, saying he intends to keep the specifics secret, while continuing to claim that he wasn’t held against his will, nor forced to resign.
That just makes the current situation all the more curious, however, as one of the first things Hariri did upon finally managing to get back into Lebanon was to suspend his resignation statement, and push for talks.
The resignation was never really accepted to begin with, as President Aoun believed it was coerced, and declined to act on it until he returned home. Hariri seems to want to act like the crisis surrounding his disappearance didn’t happen, but questions will doubtless continue to be raised.
Hariri was asked to suck MBS hairy old fella, and Saad agreed. I don’t blame him for not wanting to talk about it
From reports I’ve seen elsewhere, what also ‘stayed in Saudi Arabia’ was his wife and children who are held hostage to make sure that Hariri says exactly the right things as MBS’ sock puppet.
His wife took the trip to Paris with him for the photo-ops with Macron’s ‘mother’, while the kids stayed behind to ‘finish school exams’. The wife then flew straight back to KSA when the sock puppet went to Lebanon. But since MBS is locking up and torturing people in KSA, they are of course hostages to Hariri saying and doing exactly what America’s current favorite torturer wants.
It’s really starting to look like it’s always been the Saudis behind these assassinations in Lebanon. When he said his life was at risk, he wasn’t kidding, but it was always his boss in Riyadh threatening him, not his opponents.