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Written by General Editor
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Omar Karami
Omar Karami served as prime minister in the early 1990s and was brought back to the post in October 2004 when the billionaire businessmen and architect of Lebanon's post-war reconstruction, Rafik Hariri, fell out with his former allies in Damascus.
A lawyer by profession, he entered politics in 1987 after the death of his brother - the eight-time Arab nationalist prime minister Rashid Karami - who was killed in a bomb explosion on his helicopter while still prime minister.
He owes his position to backing from Damascus and is a staunch supporter of Syria's influence in Lebanon's politics.
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