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	Lebanese Forces : The Lebanon We Want To Build Up
		The Lebanese Front also knows that it speaks in the name of an overwhelming majority of the people of Lebanon, although it recognizes that part of this majority is not in a position to express its opinion freely.
		The Lebanese Front believes in the necessity of reconsidering the structural formula which has determined the politics of Lebanon since 1943, with a view to modifying it in such a way as to prevent any friction or clash between the members of the same Lebanese family.
		Moreover, the Lebanese Front believes that the Christians, all of them, cannot part from their brethren of the other minorities who have, for hundreds of years, contributed with them to the formation of this homeland, so unique and brave and with such a distinctive personality of its own in the Middle East.
	www.lebaneseforces.com /fthelebanonwewant.asp (4784 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Lebanon / Appendix B
		The two combatant coalitions in the Civil War were the right- wing Christian Lebanese Front, sometimes called the Kufur Front, and the left-wing Muslim Lebanese National Movement.
		Known in Arabic as the Kataib, the Phalangist Party was the mainstay of the Lebanese Front and bore the brunt of the fighting for the Christian side.
		The establishment of the LAA was announced on January 21, 1976, by Lieutenant Ahmad al Khatib, a Sunni Muslim officer in the Lebanese Armed Forces.
	memory.loc.gov /frd/cs/lebanon/lb_appnb.html (1536 words)

	The Lebanon War, Lebanese Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Lebanese civilians in the south bore the brunt of the retaliations.
		For Lebanese Communist Party ideologue Mahdi ‘Amil, the ‘April 23 uprising’ (‘Intifada’) was a political and ideological achievement of ’historic significance’, with it, ‘Lebanon's class struggle began’ and a new political force was born ‘to break the hold of the bourgeoisie-controlled’ political system and ‘to protect the Palestinian Resistance.
		The intervention of the Khatib's Lebanese Arab Army on the side of the PLO was a disaster for the Lebanese Front.
	www.cedarland.org /war.html (21117 words)

	Lebanese Civil War [Cafe Liban.net]
		The PLO and Lebanese progressive parties were fighting in the same trench, and just as the LNM had supported the PLO in its clashes with the Lebanese Army in 1969, 1973, and now in 1975, so too the PLO should stand behind the LNM in its clashes with the Phalange and its allies.
		In the Lebanese arena, the PLO faced difficulties with the Lebanese government and the continuing hostility of the Lebanese Front.
		On July 21, delegations representing Lebanon [led by Lebanese Army commander Victor Khuri], Syria [led by Syrian Chief-of-Staff Hikmat Shihabi], the ADF [represented by Colonel Sami Khatib, its new Lebanese commander], and the PLO [Salah Khalaf, with Fateh's Sa'd Sayil, Salih Nimr, and Muhammad Ghunaym] assembled at Shtura.
	www.cafeliban.net /lebanon/CivilWar.htm (17673 words)

	Lebanese Civil War
		The war was fought along both religious as well as political borders, where especially the Maronite Christians, Shi'i Muslims, the Druze, PLO, the Israeli as well as the Syrian army were the main contenders.
		Lebanese Forces, led by Bashir Gemayel, like Chamoun also a Maronite Christian, yet his group allied with the PLO.
		This resulted in fighting between the army and the Lebanese Forces and the Amal-Druze alliance.
	i-cias.com /e.o/leb_civ_war.htm (1057 words)

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		Lebanese Front was founded as the set of institutions that makes authoritative decisions for the Democrat and Right Wing political parties of Lebanon in general, and the Lebanese Christian society in specific.
		The Lebanese Front did take the place of the Lebanese Government when it was completely abscent or paralyzed by the Left Wing invaders, either they were Palestinians terrorist, Syrian terrorists or Islamic terrorist groups.
		Later on, a major problem was detected: all the Democrat are unified under one political authority, and they all function as its institutions, The Lebanese Front, which was perfect; but, the military units were not completly unified, and many were almost out of control.
	www.lebanesefront.com (719 words)

	Lebanon's History: Civil War
		That month the Lebanese Front began a siege of Tall Zatar, a densely populated Palestinian refugee camp in East Beirut; the Lebanese Front also overran and leveled Karantina, a Muslim quarter in East Beirut.
		Although the intention of the Cairo Agreement was to station Lebanese military units in southern Lebanon, instead the ADF controlled the area only to the Litani River, leaving the region south of it in the hands of the Palestinians.
		To clarify the provisions of the October 1976 Cairo Agreement (preceded by an earlier 1969 agreement) concerning Palestinian activity in southern Lebanon, representatives of Lebanon, Syria (in the guise of the ADF), and the Palestinians held a conference at Shtawrah in July and August 1977.
	www.ghazi.de /civwar.html (4657 words)

	Lebanese Civil War - some history. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		As Lebanese Front fortunes declined, two outcomes seemed likely: the establishment in Mount Lebanon of an independent Christian state, viewed as a "second Israel" by some; or, if the Lebanese National Movement won the war, the creation of a radical, hostile state on Syria's western border.
		Israeli support of the Lebanese Front was curtailed in 1981, as a condition set by the Lebanese National Movement and by Syria for any attempt at an overall resolution of the Lebanese situation.
		According to the Taif agreement, the Syrian and Lebanese Governments were to agree in September 1992 to the redeployment of Syrian troops from greater Beirut.
	www.rimbaud.freeserve.co.uk /lebanon_civwar.htm (4651 words)

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		On 28th June 1978 Syrian gunmen kidnapped and then killed thirty Lebanese Christians from four villages in the Bekaa Valley, the Lebanese Front claimed that this act was part of a Syrian goal to weaken the Christian community by forcing the Christians out the Bekaa.
		In fact, the Lebanese Forces called on Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon and concentrate its efforts against its enemies holding the Golan Heights, which was Syrian territory.
		While the Lebanese head of state was outside the country, Syrian forces sent rocket fire cascading down on the rightist-held positions, forcing Bashir Gemayel to appeal to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to help end the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
	www.cedarguards.org /TheLebaneseWar/Part9.htm (4449 words)

	The Factions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Its founders split off from the Lebanese Phalanges party in protest against its leadership's reluctance to engage in nationwide military training and arming of the Lebanese population to engage in full-scale war against the Palestinians in Lebanon.
		After the Isreali invasion in 1982 the Lebanese army saw a period of rebuilding however this was short lived as in 1983 the Lebanese Army confronted the Druze militias throuth the Shuf Mounitains.
		In 1987 the Lebanese Army consisted of 9 brigades, of which only 6 were operational, containing a total of approximately 21,000 to 27,000 men, of whom only 15,000 to 18,000 were under the operational control of the central command structure.
	www.cedarland.org /teams.html (10791 words)

	Sanctuary and Survival (chapter 6): Countdown to Confrontation
		For some Lebanese militias, emerging from the qabaday tradition of local strong-arm politics, such activities represented as much their raison d'être as did any political objectives or beliefs.33 This was not the case for Palestinian organizations, which as organizations condemned such behavior, and of whose members only a minority were involved.
		At that time, the Lebanese delegation had distributed a report on the destruction inflicted on south Lebanon, a study of the growth of the Palestinian presence and Lebanon's involvement in the Palestinian issue since 1948, and a Lebanese government working paper outlining the Sarkis administration's proposals for dealing with the problems of the south.
		And, in terms of the agreement's Lebanese effect, there was the view (notably from the DFLP) that by accepting a ceasefire the PLO was sending the wrong message to the Lebanese people, telling them that the Palestinian presence-and not Israeli aggression-was responsible for their misfortunes.
	www.arts.mcgill.ca /MEPP/PRRN/papers/sanctuary/ch6.html (16886 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Founding Philosophy: The Lebanese Liberation Front appears to have combined a variety of grievances – against Syria, Israel and the United States, although Canada was the site of their only attack outside of Lebanon.
		As their two most prominent attacks were directed against Syrian troops, the “liberation” in their name is presumed to be the liberation of Lebanon from Syrian occupation.
		The Lebanese Liberation Front's motivation to attack a Canadian target and the attack's significance to the group’s overall objectives remains unclear.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=4109 (289 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Founding Philosophy: The Lebanese National Resistance Front (LNRF) was the military wing of the pro-Moscow Lebanese Communist Party.
		Coupled with the fall of the Soviet Union, and its parent Lebanese Communist Party, ensured that the LNRF would virtually disappear by the early 1990s.
		Most observers believe that the Front was a pro-Syrian organization whose membership was primarily Lebanese.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=4110 (444 words)

	1982 Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Zaloga (1981) says the equipment of the Lebanese army fell into the hands of the various Lebanese militias during the 1975 civil war, including: M41s, M42s, Dusters, AMX-13s, Charioteers, M113s, and assorted armoured cars.
		In Aug 1989 the ridge was controlled by the predominantly Christian Forces of General Aoun, including men of the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese Forces (a Christian militia).
		Four predominantly Christian brigades of the Lebanese Army under General Aoun battled the Lebanese Forces (a Christian militia) under Samir Geagea.
	www.balagan.org.uk /war/arab-israeli/1982.htm (1659 words)

	Habash calls for a united Lebanese, Palestinian front
		The secretary general of the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine, George Habash, has called on the Lebanese and Palestinians to work together in a joint front in confrontation of settling the Palestinians in the Arab states.
		The People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls for new elections in the framework of the Palestinian National Council (the parliament in exile), a matter which is ruled out by the Palestinian Authority, taking into account that it is difficult to avoid pressures by the Arab states on the Palestinians living in their territories.
		Habash continued that he is thinking of resigning from the post of the general secretariat of the PFLP before the end of this year for several reasons.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/991117/1999111709.html (507 words)

	USCFL - Reminiscing Dr. Charles Malik's words: The Lebanon we want to build
		If the political independence of Lebanon should be overwhelmed or undermined, if its free society should be altered so as to conform to the pattern of the other societies of the Middle East, and if
		The Lebanese Front believes in the necessity of reconsidering the structural formula which has
		entire world if they determine to organize the vast Lebanese potential here and abroad methodically, meticulously and responsibly, without allowing a single particle of it to be dissipated.
	www.freelebanon.org /articles/a230.htm (4864 words)

	Meeting between Lebanese premier and Palestinian Islamic Jihad delegation
		A first meeting of its sort was held on Wednesday at the house of Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss between al-Hoss and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, following stances the movement recently expressed on using the south Lebanese front to make operations against Israel.
		The Lebanese premier responded to these statements by rejecting such operations, saying that Lebanon is backing the Lebanese resistance to liberate the Lebanese territories.
		Meanwhile, the Lebanese prime minister briefed the government during the Cabinet's meeting held on Wednesday evening the impact of the statement he made and the results of his meeting with the al-Jihad movement.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/991119/1999111906.html (398 words)

	The Daily Star - Lebanon - The Middle East's Leading English Newspaper
		Walking out of Cabinet does little to reflect Lebanese solidarity
		The most tragic result of Syrian President Bashar Assad's fiery speech on Thursday was that within hours, it provoked an apparent rift within the Lebanese government.
		When Prime Minister Fouad Siniora insisted on discussing Assad's speech in a Cabinet session, five Shiite ministers walked out of the meeting in protest.
	www.dailystar.com.lb (523 words)

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