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Rafic Hariri

Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri (; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005), also known as Rafiq al-Hariri, was a Lebanese business tycoon and politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until he resigned on . He was assassinated in 2005. Wikipedia