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Found In Tripoli, Lebanon

December 31, 2006 · Mustapha Hamoui

An obituary making the walls in the Northern port city of Tripoli mourns the death of a “martyr”

Mourners should head to the House of Mr. Majeed Al Rafii, a respectable elderly Northern figure who allied himself with Saddam in the old days.

What’s noteworthy is that Mr. Rafii ran in the last parliamentary elections in the pro-syrian electoral list(it included Sleimen Franjiyeh and Omar Karami). He is believed to be the reason why many Sunnis voted for that list (which eventually lost).