[LCM Articles] A memory...

[Louis Lebbos]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/international/middleeast/20lebanon.html?hp&ex=1111294800&en=441b692d8c0ef46a&ei=5094&partner=homepage


On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:24:27 -0500, Loai Naamani <loai at mit.edu> wrote:
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> "... That night in December of 2001, after my beating at the hands of Afghan
> refugees enraged at the death of the their loved ones in a US air raid, I
> was lying in bed in great pain, my face stuck to my pillow with blood, when
> my phone rang. A familiar voice boomed down the line. "Robert. This is Rafiq
> Hariri. What happened? Tell me from the start!" And, after I had talked for
> five minutes, he offered to send his private jet to pick me up in Quetta -
> his friend, Pervez Musharraf, would give immediate landing permission - and
> bring me to hospital in Beirut. But of course, I don't take gifts from prime
> ministers and I turned him down. And two days ago, I stood at Hariri's
> graveside, watching Musharraf mourn his friend.
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>  I am reminded, looking at those fresh flowers on his grave, of another
> conversation, long ago, in which the unthinkable question came up. What
> would happen to Lebanon if he died? 
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> Hariri raised his hands in front of me, open either side of his face. "So
> keep me alive!" he roared. And of course, we did not."  - Robert Fisk 
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