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  Pierre Gemayel Biography | whichcame1st.com
Pierre Gemayel (ÈíÇÑ Çãíä ÇáÌãíá), an outspoken critic of Syrian influence over Lebanon, Pierre was a member of the 14th March movement.Pierre Gemayel is the son of former President Amin Gemayel, Pierre was born in 1972.
Pierre Gemayel is the youngest MP in the Lebanese Parliament, Gemayel was first elected to the legislature in 2000 when he was alone on his list, and was re-elected in 2005 a maronite deputy on al-Maten Lebanon.
Pierre Amine Gemayel is part of a third generation of prominent politicians from the Gemayel family that has played an important role in Lebanon's recent history.
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 Pierre Gemayel was a rising star in Lebanese politics - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
Pierre Gemayel was the minister of industry, but much more importantly in the context of Lebanon, he was the scion of a family whose saga has been intimately woven through the country's tumultuous history for a century.
Pierre Gemayel was a key figure in the pro-Western government of Fouad Siniora, which is stuck in a political crisis between its anti-Syrian majority and the pro-Syrian opposition led by Hezbollah, which is seeking to topple the government.
Gemayel's death Tuesday echoed the killing of Gibran Tueni, a prominent and vocal opponent of the Syrian presence in Lebanon, and himself the son of a respected journalist and politician.
www.iht.com /articles/2006/11/21/news/profile.php   (916 words)

  
 Pierre Gemayel Summary
Pierre Gemayel was born in 1905, in Bikfaya, a small town in the Northern Matn region of Mount Lebanon.
Gemayel's cooperation, based on a common understanding about the nature of Lebanon, with the prominent Sunni politician (and a founding father of Lebanon), Riyad al-Sulh was crucial to Gemayel's ability to convince and mobilize the Maronite youth in support of the independence of Lebanon rather than retaining the French mandate.
Pierre Gemayel was born on 6 November 1905, in the village of Bikfaya, Lebanon, where his family had played a prominent role since 1540.
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 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Obituary: Pierre Gemayel
Pierre Gemayel was a scion of one of Lebanon's most prominent Christian political dynasties - although he himself never touched the peaks of power and influence reached by his forebears.
The name Gemayel is inextricably linked to the rightwing Maronite Christian party, the Phalange, founded by his grandfather (also named Pierre) in 1936 and one of the main players in the bloody civil war that gripped Lebanon through the 1970s and 1980s.
Pierre Jr became industry minister after the victory of anti-Syrian factions in the elections of 2005, which followed the assassination of popular former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/6169978.stm   (431 words)

  
 Key Lebanese politician assassinated | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Gemayel, 34, was leaving church when he fell into a well-coordinated attack: One vehicle cut off his car from the front, another rammed him from behind, then gunmen burst out and sprayed a dozen bullets into his passenger-side window.
Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken opponent of Hezbollah, was the fifth anti-Syrian figure killed in the past two years and the first member of the Saniora government to be slain.
Gemayel, the industry minister, was the rising star of his Maronite Christian political family, which has seen four other members killed in the past three decades of Lebanon's violence.
www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4353010.html   (1152 words)

  
 Pierre Gemayel Assassinated
Gemayel, the son of former President Amin Gemayel, was a member of the Phalange party and supporter of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which is locked in a power struggle with pro-Syrian factions led by Hizbullah.
Gemayel was first elected to parliament in 2005 and was believed to be the youngest legislator, where anti-Syrian groups dominate.
Pierre was a rising star in the party and expected to carry the mantle of the political family to the next generation.
www.maronite-heritage.com /html/nov_21-06.html   (718 words)

  
 Pierre Amine Gemayel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pierre Amine Gemayel (Arabic: بيار أمين الجميل‎; commonly known as Pierre Gemayel Jr, Pierre Amine or simply Pierre Gemayel; September 24, 1972 – November 21, 2006) was a Lebanese politician in the Kataeb Party, better known as the Phalanges.
Gemayel was educated in law in Beirut and Paris, and began his legal career at a firm in Beirut.
U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton said Gemayel's assassination brought new attention to the danger that Syria and Iran are attempting, through allies such as Hezbollah, to conduct a coup d'etat against the Lebanese government, and came the closest of any administration official to blaming Damascus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Amine_Gemayel   (1032 words)

  
 Pierre Gemayel
Gemayel's importance as a politician was often of an indirect nature.
1936: Gemayel founds the Phalange Party, or Kataeb Party, as it is also known, together with 4 others: Charles Helou (later president of Lebanon), Shafic Nassif, Emile Yared and Georges Maccache.
1960 June/July: Gemayel is elected to the parliament.
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 Dossier: Amine Gemayel (February-March 2003)
Gemayel put forth a compromise proposal that established a state security agency for non-military intelligence gathering under the stewardship of a Shiite and a six-man multiconfessional Military Council with exclusive oversight of appointments at the brigade and division levels.
The death of the aging Pierre Gemayel, whose presence in the cabinet served to quiet Christian opposition to the government, and the passing of the Maronite patriarch in the fall of 1984 led some in the LF to believe that the time was right to break with Gemayel completely.
Gemayel says that he has received assassination threats and warnings to leave the country, but insists that he will not be intimidated into leaving or revising his political views.
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 Pierre Gemayel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sheikh Pierre Gemayel (Arabic: الشيخ بيار الجميّل‎) (November 6, 1905 – August 29, 1984) (last name also spelt Jmayyel or Jemayyel, Sheikh is an honorific title in Arab countries, Arabic الشيخ بيار الجميّل), was a Lebanese political leader.
It was not until the Civil War of 1958, that Gemayel emerged as a leader of the far right-wing separatist (mainly Christian) movement that opposed a Nasserist and Arab-nationalist inspired attempt to overthrow the government of president Camille Chamoun and supported the return of foreign troops to Lebanon.
Gemayel reluctantly signed the Cairo Agreement of 1969 under enormous pressure from the international community, which allowed Palestinian guerillas to set up bases on Lebanese soil, from which to carry out actions against Israel.
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 Anti-Syrian minister Pierre Gemayel assassinated | The News is NowPublic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Pierre Gemayel, scion of the leading Maronite political family in Lebanon and minister and one of the principal opponents of Hizballah, was assassinated Tuesday afternoon.
Gemayel, 34, was rushed to hospital where he later died of his wounds.
A Christian, Gemayel was the son of a former Lebanese president Amin Gemayel and a prominent anti-Syrian politician with the Phalange Party.
www.nowpublic.com /anti_syrian_minister_pierre_gemayel_assassinated   (332 words)

  
 Amin Gemayel Says His Family’s History "Runs Parallel To Lebanon’s"
Amin Gemayel was elected president of Lebanon on Sept. 23, 1982, thus coming to power in the midst of the Israeli siege of Beirut and the height of Lebanon’s bloody civil war.
The elder Gemayel, or Sheikh Pierre as he was customarily called in Lebanon, established in 1936 a left-wing pan-Maronite political party called al-Kataeb al-Lubnaniyya (the Lebanese Phalange).
The Gemayel family, the ex-president claimed, is the legitimate and historic representative of Lebanon’s Maronite community.
www.wrmea.com /archives/october01/0110029.html   (1978 words)

  
 Pierre Gemayel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party (also known as the Phalange Party), as a parliamentary powerbroker, and as the father of Bashir Gemayel and Amine Gemayel, both of whom were elected President of the Republic in his lifetime.
Gemayel was known for his opposition to foreign domination of Lebanon, whether by the Ottomans, France, or any other power, for his belief in the coexistence of Christians and Moslems in a single state, and for his abhorrence of Lebanon being used as a proxy battleground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In the 1970s, the Kataeb was to build a private army, which came to be commanded by Gemayel's son Bashir, to oppose the armed Palestinian presence in Lebanon.
www.falange.us /pierre.htm   (963 words)

  
 Counterterrorism Blog: Response to the Terrorist assassination of Pierre Gemayel
The assassination of Minister Pierre Gemayel in Beirut is another war crime against the democratically elected Government and Parliament of Lebanon, and another strike in the Terror War waged by the Syrian regime and its allies against the Cedars Revolution and Lebanon's targeted democracy.
Gemayel was an active advocate against the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, for the implemetation of UNSCR 1559 and calling for the disarming of all militias, including Hezbollah.
In short, Pierre A. Gemayel was one of the pillars of the resistance to the Syrian and Iranian regimes in Lebanon.
counterterrorismblog.org /2006/11/response_to_the_terrorist_assa.php   (1658 words)

  
 Pierre Gemayel, Lebanese Parliamentarian, Assassinated » Outside The Beltway | OTB
Pierre Gemayel, a third generation leader of Lebanon’s Christian minority, was assassinated this morning.
Gemayel was rushed to a nearby hospital, according to the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. and the Voice of Lebanon, the Phalange Party mouthpiece.
Gemayel, the minister of industry and son of former President Amin Gemayel, was a supporter of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which is locked in a power struggle with pro-Syrian factions led by Hezbollah.
www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/2006/11/pierre_gemayel_lebanese_parliamentarian_assassinated   (461 words)

  
 Pierre Gemayel's assasination - Care2 News Network
Gemayel was rushed to a nearby hospital seriously wounded he was later confirmed as dead.
Gemayel, the minister of industry and son of former President Amin Gemayel, was a member of the Kataeb party and supporter of parliamentary majority, which is locked in a power struggle with different parties led by Hezbollah.
Gemayel was first elected to parliament in 2005 and was believed to be the youngest legislator in the legislature, where anti-Syrian groups dominate.
www.care2.com /news/member/757105477/226675   (501 words)

  
 Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
Pierre Gemayel was the scion of a Lebanese political dynasty founded by his grandfather in 1936.
Gemayel was the son of former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel and the nephew of Bashir Gemayel, who was killed in a massive explosion shortly after being elected Lebanon's president in 1982.
The Gemayel family's opposition to Syrian domination of Lebanon has already led to accusations by many top Lebanese leaders that Damascus was behind Pierre Gemayel's assassination.
english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200611/200611220001.html   (341 words)

  
 Prominent Lebanese Politician Assassinated, Anti-Syrian Christian Leader Pierre Gemayel Gunned Down Near Beirut - CBS ...
Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, increasing tensions in Lebanon amid a showdown between opponents and allies of Damascus that threatens to topple the U.S.-backed government.
Gemayel, the industry minister, was the fifth anti-Syrian figure to be killed in the past two years and the first member of the government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora to be slain.
Gemayel was the scion of one of Lebanon's most prominent political families and had been expected to carry it into the next generation.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/11/21/world/main2202312.shtml   (1115 words)

  
 Assassination of Pierre Gemayel - Lebanon - Page 2 - Islamica Community Forums
On November 21, Pierre Gemayel, a prominent Christian Maronite politician, was assassinated in the Christian Beirut suburb of Jdeideh.
Also, while Gemayel's family is one of the most important of the Christian Maronite faction, it is also one of the most controversial and is unpopular in some areas of the Christian community.
Young Pierre Gemayel, whose uncle was murdered in 1982, is only the latest casualty in a war between Israel and Syria on Lebanese soil that threatens to return the country to the pointless war that it fought from 1975 to 1990.
www.islamicaweb.com /forums/showthread.php?p=1402472   (2557 words)

  
 Naharnet Newsdesk - Anti-Syrian Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel Assassinated
Gemayel's father, former President Amin Gemayel, urged his followers from the Phalange Party, which he currently heads, to excersice restraint and refrain from vengeance.
Gemayel, the son of former President Amine Gemayel, was a member of the Phalange party and supporter of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which is locked in a power struggle with pro-Syrian factions led by Hizbullah.
Gemayel was first elected to parliament in 2000 and was believed to be the youngest legislator, where anti-Syrian groups dominate.
www.naharnet.com /domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/story/81E2D248293ACB33C225722D00534FB9?OpenDocument   (909 words)

  
 Syria Murders Pierre Gemayel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Pierre Gamayel, the anti-syrian current lebanese minister of industry, and the son of former lebanese president Beshir Gamayel, was just assassinated.
Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was killed in a terrorist attack in Jdeideh in Beirut, Abu Kais reports minutes after the attack.
In Lebanon Prominent Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday his death will heighten the political tension in Lebanon, where Hezbollah has threatened to topple the government if it does not get a bigger say in Cabinet decision making.
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 Our Martyr Pierre A. Gemayel (Audio + Pictures) [Archive] - BG Forum
Gemayel, a Maronite Christian, was the son of former President Amine Gemayel who signed the May 17 Accords with Israel, and a grandson of Pierre Gemayel (after whom he was named), who founded the Kataeb Party, one of the major players on Lebanon's political scene.
Gemayel was educated in law in Beirut and Paris, and began his legal career at a firm in Beirut.
Gemayel's killers issued a communique in which they referred to themselves the "Fighters for the Unity and Liberty of Greater Syria." They said that they killed Gemayel because he was "one of those who unceasingly spouted their venom against Syria and against [Hizbullah], shamelessly and without any trepidation."
www.bachirgemayel.org /forum/archive/index.php/t-2225.html   (1122 words)

  
 Funeral for Lebanese minister turns into anti-Syria rally - CNN.com
Gemayel, a 34-year-old rising Cabinet official from a prominent Christian political family, was shot to death Tuesday in his car in Beirut.
Amin Gemayel said his son's killing marks the beginning of a "countdown" for the convening of an international tribunal into all of Lebanon's political assassinations.
Gemayel has said he suspects Syria to be behind his son's death but said there is no proof.
edition.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/meast/11/23/lebanon.gemayel/index.html?...   (837 words)

  
 Lebanese Christian politician killed - CNN.com
Gemayel, Lebanon's industry minister and a member of the Phalange Party, had just left a church and was driving through a Christian neighborhood of Beirut on Tuesday when at least one vehicle rammed his car, security officials said.
Gemayel, who was in his 30s, was said to have been hit at least twice in the head and neck.
Gemayel was a member of a prominent Christian political family in Lebanon.
www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/meast/11/21/lebanon.shooting/index.html   (943 words)

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