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Detailed information about Elie Hobeika, Lebanese politician and minister. Phalangist and Lebanese Forces militia commander during the Lebanese Civil War. Assassinated in 2002.
Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningElie HobeikaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchContents1 Kan Akho Manyokih2 Early years3 Career during the Israeli occupation4 Hobeikas assassination5 See also6 External links[edit]Kan Akho ManyokihThis article or section does not cite its references or sources.You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.Elie HobeikaElie Hobeika (1956–24 Jan 2002) (Arabic:Åíáí ÍÈíÞÉ) was a Phalangist and Lebanese Forces militia commander during the Lebanese Civil War. He was a politician and government minister in the post-war period. He is best known for his role in the Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982.[edit]Early yearsHobeika was born in Kleiat, Lebanon in 1956. He finished his schooling at 16 years of age, by which time he had already joined Lebanons Phalange Party and by the start of the war he was a member of the militia of that organisation. In 1976 members of Hobeikas family, including his fiancée, were killed in the PLO massacre at Damour. The following year Hobeika became commander of the southern sector for the Phalange. During a lull in the fighting in 1978 Hobeika worked for Banco do Brasil, rejoining the militia and participating in the Phalangist raid which resulted in the murder of rival militia commander Tony Frangieh and his family in June of that year. Later he was promoted to head of the third division of the Phalange in charge of special operations and in 1979 promoted to security chief of the Lebanese Forces (combined militias) as head of Intelligence.[edit]Career during the Israeli occupationIn 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon. Hobeika was appointed chief liaison officer between LF/Phalange and their Israeli allies. On 15th September the Israeli army occupied West Beirut. The Israelis let the Phalange militia into the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, allegedly to remove Palestinian fighters. Hobeika was in command of this operation. Over the following three days the Phalange massacred the inhabitants of the camps.Among the evidence heard at the Israeli government’s subsequent Kahan Commission of enquiry was how Hobeika was asked by a Phalangist colleague over the radio what should be done with the 50 Palestinian women and children prisoners. He had replied: This is the last time you are going to ask me a question like that. You know exactly what to do. His colleague had laughed in response. In 1985 Hobeika ordered an assassination attempt on Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah that dramatically failed but resulted in more than 80 deaths. According to Bob Woodwards book Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, the CIA asked Hobeika to kill Fadlallah but asked for minimal bloodshed. The fiasco led the CIA to terminate its relationship with Hobeika.Over the next few years as support for the Lebanese Forces declined, and in 1985, Samir Geagea, Karim Pakradouni, and Elie Hobeika forced the resignation of the then commander of the Lebanese Forces, Fuad Abu Nadi
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