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Saturday, March 05, 2005


The Snubbing Continues


Almustaqbal Newspaper reported today that the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf is visiting Lebanon to present his condolences to the Hariri Family..
Musharraf, a friend of Hariri, is said to have set no appointment to meet any Lebanese official, effectively joining a growing chorus of diplomatic snubs this government is receiving. Before him, The French president Jacques Chirac all but ignored the Lebanese officials when he came to Lebanon, and then a Swiss team of forensic experts refused an invitation to work under the Lebanese government to inquire into hariri's death, preferring to work under the UN.