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		The Marada Brigade was the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the war.
		During the Lebanese civil war, Zgharta being the frontline and christian stronghold of the north, it was the frontline in the war for northern Lebanon as the Zgharta-based Marada Brigade militia successfully repulsed and responded with attacks on Muslim and PLO militias from neighboring Tripoli.
		The murder of Tony Frangieh was one of the factors which many commentators blame for the longevity of Lebanon's war and was the start of strong division between Christians.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wr/wrqm.htm (543 words)

	Tony Franjieh
		Tony Franjieh was the son of Suleiman Franjieh, Lebanese President at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975.
		Tony had been appointed Minister of Posts and Telegraphs in his father’s government in a move which was widely condemned as nepotism.
		Tony was accused of abusing his position to award contracts in return for bribes.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tony_franjieh.html (278 words)

	Marada Brigade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Marada Brigade was the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the war.
		They were initially allied with the Phalange but when Franjieh's pro-Syrian leanings prevented them from joining a coalition of Maronite militias, the Lebanese Forces, launched a surprise attack on the Marada headquarters at Ehden.
		In the attack, the Marada commander, Suleiman Franjieh's son Tony, was killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marada_Brigade (311 words)

	Tony
		Tony Dorsett Tony Dorsett was born on 1988.
		Tony Franjieh Tony Franjieh was the son of Suleiman Franjieh, nepotism.
		Tony Leon was educated at the 1986 a lecturer in the Law Departm...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/tony.html (2757 words)

	Suleiman Franjieh
		In his politics as president, Franjieh was anti-Palestinian, he was autocratic and nepotistic, where clansmen were given important positions independent on their qualifications.
		Franjieh issues a Constitutional Reform Document, where he changes the 6:5 ratio between Christians and Muslims in the parliament into a 5:5 parity.
		Franjieh turns against Gemayel and joins the camp of Walid Jumblatt and Rashid Karami.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/franjieh_s.htm (378 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Journalist gives a testimony to Suleiman Franjieh
		Suleiman Franjieh: Testimonies and Memories is a new biography of the fifth president of Lebanon, president from 1970-1976, written by George Farshakh, a journalist and one of the late president’s associates.
		Tony Franjieh is the father of the current Minister of Health and Zghorta MP Suleiman Franjieh.
		He recounts how the Marada, Franjieh’s militia, first established their television station, the Unified and Free Lebanon Television, after occupying Tele Liban’s relay station in the north, claiming that the station was an expression of Franjieh’s outrage against the election of Bashir Gemayel in 1982, and only became a Marada mouthpiece later.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0311/03112813DS.asp (484 words)

	View topic - A victory for Hariri alliance in Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Suleiman Franjieh, a Maronite Christian who is a former cabinet minister and the scion of a major clan allied with Syria, conceded his side was heading for defeat in the north.
		In the northern mountains, a visitor came upon a statue of Tony Franjieh, son of the Lebanese president who first invited the Syrians here in the early stages of the civil war in 1976 as a shield against the Palestinians and Muslim leftists.
		Tony Franjieh, father of the current candidate, was assassinated by a raiding party from the Lebanese Forces, a rival Christian militia led by Samir Geagea, the only warlord of the period who has been jailed.
	www.conservativelife.com /boards/ftpc37475.html (1038 words)

	Suleiman Franjieh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In his politics as president, Franjieh was anti-Palestinian, and he was autocratic and nepotistic, giving clansmen important positions regardless of their qualifications.
		Franjieh was also, however, the man recommending parliamentary reform in 1976, giving the Muslims more influence.
		Franjieh issues a Constitutional Reform Document, in which he changes the 6:5 ratio between Christians and Muslims in the parliament to a 5:5 parity.
	i-cias.com /e.o/franjieh_s.htm (367 words)

	Aoun Cements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Franjieh said his relationship with Karami was "historic" and will be maintained in the future.
		Franjieh described Aoun's victory as a victory for the unity of the country and for all honest people.
		Earlier, Aoun met with Franjieh at the mansion of his late grandfather former President Suleiman Franjieh in the presence of Franjieh's uncle, Robert, and FPM candidates Gebran Bassil and Fayez Karam.
	www.neal-us.org /aoun_cements.htm (753 words)

	SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=21432536
		Suleiman Franjieh, a Maronite Christian who is a former cabinet minister and the scion of a major clan allied with Syria, conceded his side was heading for defeat in the north.
		Tony Franjieh, father of the current candidate, was assassinated by a raiding party from the Lebanese Forces, a rival Christian militia led by Samir Geagea, the only warlord of the period who has been jailed.
		"Tony Bek," a woman in charge of the monument said proudly, using the local variant of the Ottoman Empire honorific, Bey, for a regional ruler, for the slain leader of his family's militia.
	www.siliconinvestor.com /readmsg.aspx?msgid=21432536 (1024 words)

	Caveman in Limbo: Looking Ahead
		Lahoud's term as president was extended as a result of a controversial constitutional amendment allowing for the extension, and many here feel that this amendment was forced upon the Lebanese government by Syrian pressure (okay, those familiar with Lebanese politics will accuse me of the understatement of the year; just bear with me here).
		Tony at Across the Bay has already given this issue more than enough amplification, and he puts it all into the larger perspective of elections and approaches toward significant players in the region.
		Franjieh's short tenure as interior minister was just long enough for him to purge the ministry of most non-friends or at least most non-people-who-owe-him-favors.
	blissstreetjournal.blogspot.com /2005/03/looking-ahead.html (541 words)

	Discussion Forum: Lebanon leader shot dead - is this how ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As major families among the Maronites, the Franjiehs and the Gemayels have vied for years for influence and turf in the northern mountains.
		In seeking to perpetuate the family hold on the presidency, the elder Frenjieh was maneuvering his son, Tony, toward election by the Chamber of Deputies.
		Tony’s main rival was expected to be Bashir Gemayel, the aggressive commander of the Phalange militia and son of the old Phalange political boss, Pierre.
	www.islamonline.net /discussione/message.jspa?messageID=31511 (508 words)

	Tony Franjieh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tony had been appointed to a ministerial position in his father’s government in a move which was widely condemned as nepotism.
		During the war Tony Franjieh commanded the Marada Brigade (also known as Zghorta Liberation Army).
		The Franjiehs were critical of Phalangist militia leader Bachir Gemayel’s growing alliance with Israel.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/tony_franjieh (237 words)

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		He gained nationwide notoriety for his role in the attack on Ehden in 1978, which resulted in the death of Tony Franjieh, son of former Lebanese President Sleiman Franjieh.
		Franjieh was at loggerheads with Bashir Gemayel at the time.
		Regardless of whether or not Tony Franjieh’s death was the objective of the mission and that the attack took place on the express orders of Bashir Gemayel, Geagea bore the brunt of the negative repercussions of the infamous attack, which last to this day.
	www.lebanese-forces.org /news/viewarticle.php?id=1736 (1727 words)

	Rescuers' Lebanon escape plan was clumsy, say police (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Captain Tony Franjieh, who led the preliminary investigation, said the former soldiers had underestimated the time it would take for authorities to identify them and prevent their escape.
		Captain Franjieh said that Corrigan, a 38-year-old father of one from Wollongong, rented a chalet on December 15 in the same beach resort north of Beirut where Joseph Hawach was staying with the children.
		Captain Franjieh said that the arrested men were co-operating fully, but said they did not know where the mother and her children had gone.
	www.theage.com.au /handheld/articles/2006/12/30/1166895525986.html (775 words)

	Lebanese Forces : Ehden Massacre's Last LF Detainee is Freed
		September 02, 2002 10:33 AM Hanna Shallita, 46, the last detainee held in connection with the 1978 massacre of Tony Franjieh, the standard –bearer of the pro-Syrian Franjieh clan, has been set free after paying an LL5 million bail on Friday, An Nahar said on Saturday.
		Tony Franjieh, the father of current president aspirant Suleiman Franjieh, was massacred with his wife, his 3-year-old daughter and 31 bodyguards at his summer villa in Ehden, north Lebanon, on the very day U.N. peacekeeping forces were deploying in south Lebanon 24 years ago.
		Shallita was arrested during a 1994 government crackdown on Samir Geagea's Lebanese Forces, the former Christian civil war militia that was accused of staging the Ehden carnage.
	www.lebaneseforces.com /news1September022002.asp (263 words)

	מגזין הכיבוש Occupation Magazine
		Franjieh said public opinion should not be used as a weapon, adding that politicians must use it with responsibility.
		Franjieh said that while some believed his relations with Syria were `a point of weakness,` the current phase had proven their nobility and honor.
		Franjieh vowed he would not run in the next elections if such a division was solely meant to target him, and warned Christian and Muslim MPs against taking part in such a conspiracy.
	www.kibush.co.il /show_file.asp?num=10376 (397 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Franjieh's own father, Christian militia leader Tony Franjieh, was killed in 1978 by Christian rivals who were never brought to justice.
		Franjieh said authorities are investigating the videotape broadcast Monday by Al-Jazeera TV that showed a purported Palestinian extremist from an unknown militant group claiming responsibility for assassinating Hariri.
		We cannot predict," said Franjieh, who had previously suggested a suicide bomber backed by "international parties" may have carried out the attack.
	www.cbn.com /cbnnews/Wire/050217e.aspx?option=print (835 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Addoum outraged as Phalange leader claims credit
		Addoum explained that the case of the murder of Tony Franjieh was in the hands of the judicial investigator, magistrate Abdullah Bitar.
		He said that official warrants were issued for the five persons ordering them to be available for the continuing of the Ehden Massacre case, which involved the deaths of Tony Franjieh, his wife and daughter, and several dozen others.
		The prosecutor said that some wartime murder cases were in the hands of the Judicial Council and were not covered by the general amnesty decree, which was issued at the end of the hostilities.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0205/02051407DS.asp (469 words)

	Samir Geagea - Biography
		While the Kata'ib staunchly opposed Syrian intervention, some Christian leaders who had steadfastly fought (or sent their followers to fight) the PLO's attempted takeover of the country were perfectly willing to accommodate Syria's hegemonic ambitions so long as they obtained a share of the post-war political spoils.
		By 1978, Franjieh's Zghorta-based militia, commanded by his son, Tony, was coordinating directly with Syrian military intelligence and waging a relentless wave of terrorism, ambushes, and assassinations against the Kata'ib throughout north Lebanon.
		The plan was to arrest Joud al-Bayeh's assassins, who were seeking protection and refuge in Franjieh's palatial summer residence in Ehden, a symbol of the family's prestige and a major arsenal and communications center.
	www.samirgeagea.com /biography.htm (1243 words)

	Lebanese Forces : Historical Fact: The Assassination of Tony Franjieh
		At the start of the war Franjieh had been obliged to call on the Phalange for help in the north of Lebanon where before the war the Phalange had not been a major force especially in Zgharta, Franjieh's home town.
		On June 13, 1978, Gemayel launched a surprise attack that decimated the Marada Brigade, Tony Franjieh was killed in the attack.
		The exact circumstances of Tony's death remain vague with accounts of Tony and his family being already dead when the Geagea strike force arrived, while other accounts claim that there were two raiding parties with Elie Hobeika leading one of them.
	www.lebaneseforces.com /blastfromthepast012.asp (448 words)

	The Lebanon War, Lebanese Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Franjieh, who came from Zgharta in northern Lebanon, was accused of promoting his own power and catering to the interests of his clansmen instead of confronting Lebanon's growing security problems.
		Perhaps Franjieh sincerely thought that a strong inter confessional military government with unquestionable authority over the army could avert widespread conflict, although Lebanon's democracy would be sacrificed.
		President Franjieh's Marada troops, who hailed from Zgharta and were commanded by his son Tony, kept the PLO pinned down in Tripoli to allow the other Lebanese Front fighters to return to the Tal al Zaatar battle.
	www.cedarland.org /war.html (21117 words)

	The Lebanese bloggers: The North: A Different Ball Game! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tony from Across the Bay has been critical of the past two Al-Mustaqbal editorials claiming they are focusing more on the Christian component of the electoral race.
		Remember, Omar Karami opted out of the race as well as the Jama'a Al-Islamiyya, hence leaving Franjieh and Aoun (both Christian figures) to pick the Sunni/Orthodox/Alawite allies to complete their list for the second electoral district (namely Tripoli, Zgharta, Batroun, and Koura), which again puts the spotlight on the Christians.
		Hariri now is giving the northerners a choice for something different, not a Franjieh, not a Karami, not a Mirehbi, not that historical patron-client relationship; he's providing an alternative.
	lebaneseblogger.blogspot.com /2005/06/north-different-ball-game.html (1099 words)

	The LF Students Official Website - Geagea's Release Seen Imminent as Lahoud Drops Objection - Samir Geagea - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Interior Minister Suleiman Franjieh said Friday he had long forgiven Geagea in connection with the LF attack that killed his father Tony Franjieh, his mother and 3-year-old sister at the summer villa in Ehden in 1978.
		Murr's son, Elias, who preceded Franjieh as interior minister and who is President Lahoud's son in law, said he would also sign the parole.
		Dory Chamoun, the National Liberal Party leader, is on record that he would not object to Geagea's release despite a court conviction that he masterminded the assassination of Dory's younger brother Dany along with his half-German wife and two small sons at their house in Baabda in 1990.
	www.wanabka.net /modules/news/article.php?storyid=80 (660 words)

	Bloodshed as the Israelis Go Home \| TIME
		Franjieh and his followers have close ties with Syrian President Hafez Assad, while Gemayel's Phalangists and Chamoun's Freedom Party have increasingly become pro-Israeli and anti-Syrian.
		On the morning of the withdrawal, some 200 armed Phalangists descended on the resort village of Ehden, 60 miles north of Beirut, where Tony Franjieh, 36, the eldest son of Suleiman Franjieh and commander of his father's private army, was vacationing.
		The speculation was that Gemayel, whose 15,000-man private army is the strongest among the three factions, was out to destroy both the Franjieh and Chamoun clans in the hope of taking over as undisputed leader of the Christian side.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,916230-2,00.html (642 words)

	Naharnet Newsdesk - Geagea, Franjieh to Reconcile Soon
		The Christian leader said two delegations representing the two rival politicians were expected to hold talks soon to finalize the process of settling their differences.
		In 1978, Geagea headed a brigade of the Phalange Party that led a military operation against Franjieh's father, Tony, during which he was killed along with his wife and little daughter.
		Tony Franjieh was the commander of the pro-Syrian Marada militia.
	www.naharnet.com /domino/tn/Newsdesk.nsf/Lebanon/2C6ADCEA90E6A2C0C225712D00426FAE?OpenDocument (247 words)

	Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The same type of summoning the deceased takes place even when the person in question did not die a violent death: Saeb Salam, Majid Arslan, Hamid Franjieh and Joseph Skaff are present in Tamam Salam, Talal Arslan, Samir Franjieh and Elie Skaff, respectively.
		This demonstrates that Lebanese have not experienced a sufficient amount of peace to establish future-oriented sources of political reference, whether since the civil war broke out in 1975 or even prior to this.
		The nation has not been given enough time to get to know itself; families are the framework of this blood-based politics, as much as they lead individuals toward sects.
	english.daralhayat.com /opinion/OPED/05-2005/Article-20050523-0a4d9a89-c0a8-10ed-004e-5e7a31757486/story.html (1418 words)

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