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	Samir Geagea - Leader of the Lebanese Forces
		Samir Geagea (born October 25, 1952) is the formerly imprisoned leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF) militia.
		Geagea was born in Ain el-Rummanah in Beirut in 1952 to parents from the Maronite town of Bsharri in the mountains of Northern Lebanon.
		In 1994, Geagea was arrested on charges of attempting to undermine government authority by "maintaining a militia in the guise of a political party," of instigating acts of violence, and of committing assassinations during the Lebanese Civil War.
	www.samirgeagea.com (906 words)

	Lebanese-Forces.org: Official site of the Lebanese Forces
		Samir Geagea was one of the first members of the Resistance to defend the sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from ridicule and corruption.
		Samir Geagea, known by those close to him as the "Hakim", is a fierce enemy of political feudalism, autocracy and suppression of the people.
		Samir Geagea has proven that the cause comes first, he has sent a clear message for all of us and that message is Lebanon is worth the sacrifice and all our martyrs don't expect less.
	www.lebanese-forces.org /hakim/index.htm (1172 words)

	Samir Geagea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geagea was pardoned and released from prison in the summer of 2005.
		Geagea was born in Ain el-Remmaneh in Beirut in 1952 to parents from the Maronite town of Bsharri in the mountains of Northern Lebanon.
		Geagea was suspected and arrested on charges of attempting to undermine government authority by "maintaining a militia in the guise of a political party," of instigating acts of violence, and of committing assassinations during the Lebanese Civil War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samir_Geagea (1315 words)

	Dossier: Samir Geagea (May 2004)
		Geagea was born in 1952 in the Ain Roumaneh neighborhood of Beirut to a family of modest means from the northern Lebanese village of Bsharri.
		The son of an adjutant in the Army, Geagea came of age at a time when the barriers to socio-economic advancement within the Christian community had begun to weaken and record numbers of students were arriving at universities on the strength of their intelligence and self-discipline, rather than wealth or family connections.
		Geagea's defiance was not powerful enough to bring down the system, but it was powerful enough to shame the governing elite in the eyes of the population.
	www.meib.org /articles/0405_ld.htm (4562 words)

	Samir Geagea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Samir Geagea Samir Geagea (born October 25 1952) is the imprisoned leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF) militia.
		Geagea was appointed head of LF's Northern Front in the early 1980s, where he commanded around 1,500 battle-hardened henchmen, drawn mainly from his native town of Bsharri and other towns and villages in Northern Lebanon.
		In 1986, Geagea became head of the Lebanese Forces militia (a Phalangist-dominated coalition) after staging a coup against Elie Hobeika, who was widely accused of treachery in the Lebanese Christian sector for agreeing to a Syrian-sponsored accord.
	samir-geagea.area51.ipupdater.com (748 words)

	Samir Geagea Biography
		Samir Geagea was born on October 25, 1952 in Ain al-Remaneh, one of the suburbs of Beirut.
		Geagea, now responsible for the Lebanese Forces and the Kataeb along northern front, moved to a convent in the upper mountains of Jbeil where he reorganized the youth, opened training centers, and began the development of fortifications opposite Syrian positions.
		In January 1983, the Lebanese Forces command council appointed Samir Geagea, who retained his responsibilities on the northern front, concurrent of its forces in the Shuf-Aley sector of Mt. Lebanon, an area from which the Lebanese Forces were forced to retreat in September 1983.
	www.lebanese-forces.org /hakim/biography.htm (905 words)

	July 18-05
		Geagea's parole bill and the de facto recognition of the LF as a full-fledged political party that contested the May-June elections, winning six seats, have effectively revoked a 1994 government resolution that outlawed the Lebanese Forces, calling it a civil war militia bent on partitioning Lebanon into sectarian mini-states.
		Geagea and Adwan have reasserted the LF alliance with Saad Hariri, Walid Jumblat and Qornet Shahwan as an integral part of the March 14 uprising that drove Syria out of Lebanon in the wake of Rafik Hariri's assassination and the LF will be an equal partner in the decision-making process of the quadripartite pact.
		Geagea added her husband will "return to politics" once he is released, but not before the couple take a long holiday in a European capital to allow him to recuperate from his prison time.
	www.maronite-heritage.com /html/july_18-05.html (1353 words)

	Lebanese Forces : Samir Geagea: A Prisoner Of Conscience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Key witnesses who testified against Dr. Geagea later recanted their testimonies claiming they were tortured and coerced into testifying and that they were made to sign declarations that they have not read, nonetheless, cases were not allowed to be reviewed claiming that the sentences were not subject to appeal.
		Geagea had the rare courage to still have confidence in the judiciary and to trust the military honor in an era where nepotism and cronyism are the norms...
		Geagea is a prisoner of conscience who stood tall in the face of his oppressors and refused to let them break his spirit despite the extreme measures they took against him.
	www.lebaneseforces.com /feature-samirgeagea.asp (2827 words)

	Middle East Online
		"The continued detention of Samir Geagea is unjust because he was condemned by a court which was not free" but under the control of Syria, which last month ended a 29-year troop deployment in Lebanon, he told reporters.
		Geagea was found innocent of a 1994 bomb attack on a church that left 11 dead but, unlike other former warlords, was handed a death sentence that was commuted to life imprisonment for crimes committed during the war.
		Geagea was convicted of the 1987 assassination of prime minister Rashid Karameh, whose brother Omar Karameh, another ex-premier, is opposed to amnesty calls for the former LF chief.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=13535 (357 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Release and rewind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Samir Geagea is finally out of prison and he promises to change the entire Lebanese political spectrum, Sherine Bahaa reports
		Lebanese ultra-right Christian warlord Samir Geagea was released this week from 11 years in prison, completing the phase of the return of Christian militants involved in Lebanese civil war politics to their lands.
		Geagea was the last on this list, and following a long campaign for his freedom led by his wife, Strida Geagea MP, a parliamentary vote secured his release last week.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/753/re4.htm (1030 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Geagea, anti-Syrian leader of the now-disbanded Christian Lebanese Forces militia, was the only militia chief jailed after the conflict.
		Geagea, 53, left his Defence Ministry cell in Beirut and soldiers escorted him straight to the airport where he met Lebanese Forces supporters at the VIP lounge.
		Geagea's amnesty was backed by former Muslim and Christian civil war foes newly united against Syria and emboldened by the end of its 29-year military presence in Lebanon.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/77EA736C-F5A6-4F74-BB90-CA618D419C12.htm (515 words)

	IOL: Former warlord Samir Geagea leaves jail
		Geagea, who led the Lebanese Forces, the most powerful Christian wartime militia, was released under an amnesty law passed last week by the newly elected parliament, now dominated by foes of Damascus.
		Geagea, 52, was driven straight to Beirut airport in a military convoy from the defence ministry where he had been detained in solitary confinement, witnesses said.
		Geagea, who fought bloody battles with Aoun's forces in the last stages of the civil war, was a hero to many Maronites, but was regarded by many Muslims and some Christians as a dangerous Israeli-allied firebrand wedded to Maronite supremacy.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw112236678092B241&set_id=1 (629 words)

	Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Their leader, Samir Geagea, was thrown in jail by the Syrians because of his work against them.
		Geagea was persucated becuase the new political powerhouse in Lebanon (the Syrian government) ran punished any faction that fought against it.
		All that is for certian that Geagea is no more guilty then the other dozens and dozens of warloards and Freedom fighters who walked the streets of Lebanon freely after the war ended, however he suffered with 11 years, 2 months, and some days of pure hell, while others became political machines in the country.
	www.publiuspundit.com /?p=714 (948 words)

	Freed Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea arrives in Paris : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Geagea, who targeted Druze, Muslim and Palestinian forces during the civil war and allied his men with Israel during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon, called for cooperation from all of Lebanon's political and religious groups to help in the country's reconstruction.
		Geagea, 52, who was the only prominent former warlord from Lebanon's 1975-90 Civil-War era to be jailed for his actions during the conflict, was freed under an amnesty law passed last week.
		Geagea drew the loudest applause when he spoke of "the plight and endurance of my darling, my wife Strida," who was recently elected as an MP and actively sought for her husband's release.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/07/1717663.php (928 words)

	Samir 726 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Samir Geagea, the only Lebanese warlord punished for his role in the 1975-90 civil war, left jail after 11 years on Tuesday in a step toward reconciliation after the end of the Syrian tutelage he bitterly opposed.
		Geagea, 52, was driven to Beirut airport, where he embraced well-wishers and thanked old foes who united to help end Syria's 29-year grip on Lebanon in April and push for his release.
		Geagea had been serving four life sentences for political murders during the civil war, including the 1987 killing of Prime Minister Rashid Karami, and spent most of his jail time in solitary confinement in an underground defense ministry cell.
	www.falange.us /samir_726.htm (549 words)

	GHASSAN TOUMA : SAMIR GEAGEA IS INNOCENT
		Geagea was tried and sentenced for involvement in the murder of Dany Chamoun and members of his family in 1990, and in the murder of Elias Zayek, a member of the LF.
		On May 20 of this year Samir Geagea, Tony Obeid and yourself were sentenced to death for the murder of Dr. Elias Zayek, a sentence which was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment.
		Despite all this, Dr. Geagea continued to confront the pressures by means of political contacts in a democratic way, even when LF officials began to be watched, to be abused at checkpoints, and to be the objects of slanderous allegations in the media.
	www.rdl.com.lb /1996/1900/english.htm (3249 words)

	Ya Libnan \| Samir Geagea will be out of Jail this weekend \| Live News from Lebanon
		Geagea is the only Lebanese warlord to be punished for crimes during the long civil war which ended in 1990.
		Samir Geagea (born October 25, 1952) is the imprisoned leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF) militia.
		Geagea is currently serving several life sentences for crimes allegedly committed during the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-1990.
	yalibnan.com /site/archives/2005/07/samir_geagea_wi.php (1129 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Geagea has been in solitary confinement, spending most of the past 11 years in an underground cell at the Defence Ministry.
		He is the only prominent former commander of disbanded Lebanese forces to be jailed for opposing Syrian dominance, while other leaders benefited from an amnesty for crimes committed during the 1975-90 civil war and went on to become lawmakers and cabinet ministers.
		Geagea, who led the Christian Lebanese Forces during the civil war, was arrested in April 1994 after the bombing of a church that killed 10 people.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/B48AA8F0-6637-4F64-89D8-A07A8AB829F8.htm (704 words)

	Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea left jail \| Beirut-Diary.com
		Geagea is due to hold a televised speech at Beirut´s international airport and leave afterwars to a yet unspecified European city for thorough medical examination for at least one month.
		Samir Geagea was arrested in 1994 four a alleged bombing of a church in the christian village of “Zouk Mikaell”, close to the Lebanese christian center Jounieh.
		Geagea looked a bit hagard and pale but spoke firm voiced and determined, giving some in the audience a disaproving glance from time to time when a mobile phone rang during the speech.
	www.beirut-diary.com /?p=23 (323 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| The Release of Samir Geagea and the “Reconciliation”
		The released Geagea was keen to tell everyone that he had not changed but had learned much from his personal trial, but he didn’t go as far as to thank his jailers.
		During Geagea’s televised address, behind him was a photo of the Lebanese president, since he was speaking at a reception room at Beirut Airport, which has now been officially named The Martyr Rafiq al-Hariri International Airport.
		Geagea’s address wasn’t distant from the spirit of the ministerial statement, which he hadn’t read.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0705/05073102DAH.asp (804 words)

	Debbie Schlussel
		Geagea, a freedom fighter, who fought leftist, Syrian, Hezbollah, and Palestinian forces, was the ONLY man punished for incidents during the Lebanese civil war.
		Geagea was this close to becoming leader of Lebanon and establishing peace with the State of Israel by recognizing it.
		Troubling is Geagea's reported alliance with Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, who for years whored himself out to Syria (even though his father Kamal Jumblatt was murdered by Rifaat Al-Assad, uncle of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad).
	www.debbieschlussel.com /archives/2005/07/cause_for_optim.html (275 words)

	10.000 demand the release of Lebanes Forces leader Samir Geagea \| Beirut-Diary.com
		Geagea was also accused for the killing of some Christian political leaders, namely Dany Chamoun and his family in 1990, the killing of former Prime Minister Rashid Karami, and Tony Franjieh and his family in 1978.
		Since Samir Geagea´s arch rival Michel Aoun is very likely to make his return to Lebanon on May 7 or 8, there are interesting times ahead for the country during parliamentary elections which are to take place before May 29.
		Samir Geagea may re-emerge as the Christian hero he used to be before going to jail.
	www.beirut-diary.com /?p=16 (1150 words)

	Samir Geagea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Samir Geagea was born on November 25, 1952 in Ain al-Remaneh, one of the suburbs of Beirut.
		With the out breaking fighting in beirut in 1975 and the division of the city, Samir Geagea had to leave AUB after five years of study.
		In 1978, only a few months from his degree, Samir Geagea again broke away from his studies.
	www.marjeyoun.com /lfm/samir.htm (825 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| A clean slate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While LF supporters have campaigned for his release since he was found guilty in 1994 of war crimes, the campaign intensified after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri in February this year when the "national reconciliation" debate took centre-stage.
		His wife Strida Geagea, an MP, described the passing of the bill as "the end of the civil war" and as the final step towards consolidating Lebanese "national reconciliation".
		Other Lebanese consider the release of Geagea to be the last step in finally pardoning all warlords; one which in itself constitutes a clear statement that 15 years after the civil war ended all perpetrators of war crimes will be fully reintegrated into Lebanese politics.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/752/re3.htm (862 words)

	Samir Geagea - Biography
		One of the units was led by 26-year old Geagea, whose hometown was traditionally at odds with the Franjieh clan.
		However, a faction of the LF headed by Geagea and LF intelligence chief Elie Hobeiqa sidelined Abu Nader and took control over the Christian enclave in March 1985.
		However, Geagea managed to defend the Christian enclave and maintain close relations with the United States.
	www.samirgeagea.com /biography.htm (1243 words)

	Family thanks Cardinal Sfeir for helping in Samir Geagea’s release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ms Strida Geagea told AsiaNews that as soon as her husband Samir—the former head of the Lebanese Forces—is free, they are going abroad for three weeks.
		Samir Geagea is Christian and the only warlord sentenced for crimes committed during the country’s civil war.
		Samir’s father Farid, 80, has not forgotten his Tuesday and Thursday visits to the prison since 1994, the humiliations, the ten minute meetings that sometimes could surprisingly stretch to an hour when the whole family came.
	brakpage.milkbag.net /cardinal_173__article_1934.htm (455 words)

	Samir Geagea - Wikipédia
		Samir Geagea (سمير جعجع), né le 25 octobre 1952 à Ain-el-Remmaneh (Beyrouth), est un ancien chef de milice et homme politique libanais.
		Geagea est gravement blessé au bras et évacué.
		Samir Geagea est arrêté en avril 1994 après un attentat contre une église qui fait dix morts.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samir_Geagea (1183 words)

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