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Feltman was the US ambassador to Lebanon when Syria had to withdraw from Lebanon in 2005 under US pressure following the assassination of Lebanon's former PM rafik Hariri.
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* It is rafik al harir the one responsible for out national debt.
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I believe this should still work for other netbooks ... it's a PC5300 SODIMM ..... rafik said: i'm wondering, if i buy 2, would i get
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chained_bear commented on the word rafik
"The going was not easy. Stein and his party had to stay on treacherous paths cutting through steep gorges hundreds of feet above icy rivers. They inched along cliff faces by walking on man-made supports, called rafiks, consisting of branches and rock slabs stuck in cracks on the face of the mountains. ... no pack animal could negotiate these torturous trails. After crossing into China at the Mintaka Pass (15,187 feet, or 4,629 m), they proceeded north to Kashgar and form there to Khotan and then Niya."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 30
December 30, 2016