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Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi the 38 year old second son of the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, has made a speech on Libyan state TV blaming the political turmoil in Libya on drunken and drugged tribal factions and Islamist extremists acting on their own agendas. al-Gaddafi warned of civil war causing no trade, no oil money, and a country taken over by foreigners. He blamed the foment unrest and violence in Libya on  Arab and African expatriates, vowing to fight until the last man standing. While promising reforms he vowed he would not allow Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya or the BBC to trick the population with their aim at installing Islamist rule. al-Gaddafi in his finger-wagging speech blamed the foreign media for inflating the death toll.

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Saad-eddine Rafiq Al-Hariri the 39 year old Prime Minister of Lebanon and the second son of Rafic Hariri the former Lebanese Prime Minister who was assassinated in 2005, has had his fragile coalition unity government fall as a direct consequence of the investigation conducted into his father’s assassination. A dispute had developed within the government partners as to how to respond to the imminent release of a U.N. tribunal’s indictments resulting for those accused of his father’s murder. The Shi’ite Hizballah partner announced the resignations of eleven ministers, comprising more than a third of the government cabinet precipitating the dissolution of the government plunging the polarized country back into uncertainty.

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