Mr. Khaddam , who became vice president in 1984 , told the pan-Arab satellite news channel Al Arabiya on Friday that President Assad had threatened former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon months before Mr. Hariri was assassinated , and that no Syrian authority could have made the decision to kill Mr. Hariri on its own .
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