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Samir Geagea
Country: Lebanon
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Main Page News Archive Biography ArticlesQuotesPictures SpeechesSite Credits 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 served what were to be several life sentences for crimes allegedly committed during the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-1990, but he was pardoned by the government of Lebanon on July 18, 2005. He remains the only civil war-era leader to have stood trial for crimes committed during the war. 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. While studying medicine at the American University of Beirut, he became an active member of the right-wing Phalangist Party, which became the main Christian fighting force upon the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. He steadily rose through the ranks and led several daring operations at the request of Bashir Gemayel, then commander of the Phalangist militia (a right-wing movement advocating Maronite political participation in Lebanon). In 1983, he led the defence of the Shouf Region in Central Lebanon against an onslaught by various militias especially by those led by the later ally Walid Jumblat that were supported by the Syrian Army. Geagea was appointed head of LFs northern Front in the early 1980s, where he commanded around 1,500 battle-hardened soldiers, drawn mainly from his native town of Bsharri and other towns and villages in Northern Lebanon. This loyal following would later ensure his ascension. In 1984 Geagea and Elie Hobeika orchestrated an internal coup in order to end the leadership of Fuad Abu Nader on the Lebanese Forces. Abu Nader was considered to be too close to his uncle, president Amine Gemayel whose policies were not accepted by most LF leaders. In 1986, Geagea became head of the Lebanese Forces after overthrowing Hobeika, who was widely accused of treachery in the Lebanese Christian sector for agreeing to a Syrian-sponsored accord (the tripartite agreement). Geagea transformed the LF into a formidable fighting force and nurtured links with Iraq, which developed into a major source of weaponry and support due to its animosity towards Syria. He also developed a highly organised civil infrastructure in areas under LF contol. In 1989, Geagea approved of the Taif agreement which aim was to put an end to the lebanese war. Geagea initially supported General Michel Aouns military campaign, with the declared intention of freeing Lebanon of all foreign forces, launched in 1989. However, he later began to question Aouns motives in pursuing such a destructive and unpromising war against the much larger Syrian Army and its leftist allies. When Aoun began taking active steps to undermine and dissolve the LF, Geagea resisted violently. This resulted in a devastating war in 1990 between the LF and Lebanese Army units loyal to Aoun.The post-war period Aoun surrendered on 13 October 19
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