Ahmad Fatfat
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Ahmad Fatfat is the interim interior minister of Lebanon, a position he assumed on February 5 2006, following the abrupt resignation of his predecessor Hassan Sabeh.
Born into a conservative Sunni Muslim family in Dinnieh in 1953, Fatfat has always been associated with the pro-Wahhabi wing of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s Future Movement.
Following the burning of the Danish embassy and of several churches in East Beirut’s Christian boroughs in February 2006, minister Fatfat was quick to accuse “radical Shiite elements” and “Christian troublemakers allied with the Syrian regime”, a statement he was later to retract when it turned out that all of the anti-Christian rioters arrested on that day by the Lebanese police were radical Sunni Islamists, many of them members of minister Fatfat’s own Future Movement[1]
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- ^ Sources : Nouvel Observateur, Feb 8 2006.
