This tweet actually sickened me, and it clearly shows what a sick man Harriri is,
Elie_J_MalloElie Mallo
@HaririSaad would u vote for Dr. Geagea for presidency after 2013 if u got the majority or u prefer a maronite member from Future Tayyar?
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@HaririSaadSaad Hariri
@Elie_J_Mallo I WILL VOTE FOR HIM IN HEART BEAT IN CAPITAL LETTERS
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saadharounsaadharoun
@HaririSaad @elie_j_mallo Dr. geagea is the best ally and we all support him for presidency, and there is no first lady better than Setrida.
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GeorgesElHajjGeorges Hajj
@HaririSaad @Elie_J_Mallo I will be more then happy to wait for this day then! LF Supporter! 14 march in heart!
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A list of Samir Geagea's crimes (which include conviction of murdering Sunni muslim Prime minister):
A convicted Lebanese warlord, widely recognized for planning, ordering and committing war crimes that left permanent scars on the minds and bodies of thousands of Lebanese citizens. Mr. Samir Geagea was the leader of the "Lebanese Forces militia" during the Lebanese war that lasted from 1975 to 1990.
His bloody history against the people and the national army of Lebanon has shaped Lebanon's modern history, leaving behind thousands of widows, orphans, handicapped and displaced people, as well as destroyed public and private property. If for any reason Samir Geagea should be in the United States, it should be to stand trial for his war crimes against the families and friends of many Lebanese-Americans who either lived or witnessed the Lebanese war.
As of 1994, Geagea was tried and convicted for four crimes – only a small portion of his long list of war crimes. He was convicted for:
1. The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister, Mr. Rachid Karami
2. The assassination of a former leading figure in the Lebanese Forces militia, Elias Zayek
3. The assassination of Christian leader Dany Chamoun with his wife and two young children (ages 5 and 7)
4. The assassination attempt against Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of the Interior Michel Murr
Zayek was a Christian leader who posed a threat to Geagea's dreams of the militia leadership. Dany Chamoun, son of late Lebanese President Camille Chamoun, was one of the most active and independent Christian leaders during the Syrian invasion of 1990, and was also a threat to Geagea's ambition of being the sole Christian leader. In 1990, Geagea commenced his collaboration with the brutal Syrian regime at the expense of the Lebanese people.
Although he was not convicted, Geagea was suspected of bombing the Maronite Catholic church of Saydet Najat in Jounieh, in which tens of worshipers were killed in 1994. The judges could not convict him "for insufficient evidence" as per the official verdict. Geagea was sentenced to death for his assassination crimes, and the sentence was later reduced to lifetime in prison.
Geagea only spent 11 years in jail, and was pardoned in a special bill passed by the Lebanese parliament on July 18, 2005. An interesting condition about this "special pardon" is that it not only included Geagea, but also included a score of Al Qaeda-inspired extremists who were captured after conducting terrorist attacks against the Lebanese army and civilians in 2001. Geagea's release is perceived by many people as a cover up and distraction for the release of these Islamist extremists.
A leader of a relatively insignificant political party, Geagea holds no public official or representative status. This criminal and insignificant party leader holds no official title or position in the Lebanese government to be received by the Bush Administration or the Republican Party.
To grant a US entry visa to a convicted war criminal such as Samir Geagea, and to permit him to defile the land of the free is not only against US law, but is also an unacceptable deed, and a great insult to the American people and to the values inherent in the American Constitution* . Criminals such as Geagea should not set foot on the soil of the United States, not to mention that of the White House or the Capitol Building. The eyes that enjoyed gazing coldly at the grief of hundreds of thousands of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, grandfathers and grandmothers from all over the world, should never be allowed to look toward the home of the brave.
No single record can summarize Samir Geagea's crimes against humanity. There is no way to include all the crimes against civilians; the raping, the destruction of houses over their residents, the beheading of civilians and throwing their bodies under bridges, throwing people alive in valleys from bridges, sinking people with concrete blocks in their feet, and destroying houses of worship on their attendees. There is no way to compile a record of all Geagea's crimes, but for a small sample of his crimes, please see list below:
June 13, 1978 - Samir Geagea led an attack against Tony Farngieh, a prominent Christian leader of North Lebanon at his summer family house. Franjieh was killed along with dozens of supporters.
September, 1982 – Lebanese Forces militia, of which Geagea was a rising member at that point, participated in massacres against Palestinian refugees in camps in Beirut leaving more than a thousand casualties.
1984 – Assassination of Ghaith Khoury, a potential threat to his command position, outside a beach resort in the Byblos area. Khoury's wife was injured and hospitalized. The wife was later shot on the operation table in the hospital.
March 11, 1985 - Geagea led a bloody coup within his militia in collaboration with Elie Houbeika, which resulted in Houbeika assuming the leadership of the Lebanese Forces Militia.
January 15, 1986 - Geagea led a bloody coup to claim leadership of the Lebanese Forces militia from Houbeika, leaving 600 dead of his own militia in one day. (more: Click for list of crimes)
Brief Background:
The Lebanese Forces militia was originally formed by merging several Christian groups at the end of the1970's to counter the rising Syrian and Palestinian power. However, Samir Geagea who led several battles before and after he assumed its full leadership turned his militia into an uncontrolled power, occupying a small Christian region of Lebanon and forcing its residents to submit to his authority. He turned against any Christian leader who opposed his authority, and led a series of destructive wars causing the displacement of 200,000 citizens until this very day.
Geagea's atrocities included murder, village destruction, displacing villagers, execution of arrested citizens, massacring families, drug and weapon dealing, money laundering, and finally burying nuclear wastes in the mountains of his controlled region in exchange for cash. His crimes did not spare Muslims, Christians or Druze.
On October 13, 1990, Samir Geagea's militia supported with artillery bombing the Syrian invasion of Beirut, which led to the fall of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense and the Lebanese Presidential Palace. Along with the massacres committed against the Lebanese Armed Forces and civilians that day, Geagea's militia celebrated with gun shots and fireworks the defeat of the Lebanese Armed Forces and subsequent Syrian control of Lebanon. A few days later, Geagea assassinated his main political opponent Dany Chamoun and his family.
Short List of Samir Geagea's War Crimes
No single record can summarize Samir Geagea's crimes against humanity. There is no way to include all the crimes against civilians; the raping, the destruction of houses over their residents, the beheading of civilians and throwing their bodies under bridges, throwing people alive in valleys from bridges, sinking people with concrete blocks in their feet, and destroying houses of worship on their attendees. There is no way to compile a record of all Geagea's crimes, but for a small sample of his crimes is listed below.
June 13, 1978 - Samir Geagea led an attack against Tony Farngieh, a prominent Christian leader of North Lebanon at his summer family house. Franjieh was killed along with dozens of supporters.
September, 1982 – Lebanese Forces militia, of which Geagea was a rising member at that point, participated in massacres against Palestinian refugees in camps in Beirut leaving more than a thousand casualties.
1984 – Assassination of Ghaith Khoury, a potential threat to his command position, outside a beach resort in the Byblos area. Khoury's wife was injured and hospitalized. The wife was later shot on the operation table in the hospital.
March 11, 1985 - Geagea led a bloody coup within his militia in collaboration with Elie Houbeika, which resulted in Houbeika assuming the leadership of the Lebanese Forces Militia.
January 15, 1986 - Geagea led a bloody coup to claim leadership of the Lebanese Forces militia from Houbeika, leaving 600 dead of his own militia in one day. "After Houbeika's ouster, Karim Pakradouni assumed the number two position in the LF behind Geagea. During this period, he was instrumental in cultivating a rapprochement between the LF and Yasser Arafat. In 1987, Pakradouni visited Tunisia to meet Arafat and negotiated a deal whereby the Palestinians paid $15 million to the LF and President [Amine] Gemayel in return for the granting of Lebanese visas to five thousand PLO fighters, which allowed Arafat to reestablish an armed presence in the Palestinian refugee camps. This move dealt a major setback to both Israel, which had driven the PLO out of Beirut in 1982, and Syria, which had subsequently driven Arafat and his remaining loyalists out of north Lebanon." (Middle East Intelligence Bulletin)
1986-1987 - Geagea's militia buried nuclear and chemical wastes in self-controlled region in exchange for millions of dollars. The Lebanese army worked later on removing the wastes and exporting them. "Jelly Wax, an Italian company, had been paying the Christian militia led by Geagea to store the toxics in Lebanon, including in a quarry near Beirut that once held 16,000 barrels and 20 containers of heavy metals, toxic pesticides, and other deadly chemicals. The Italian chemical barrels began to bubble over and explode, so the Lebanese Forces [militia] asked Mr. Pierre Malychef, one of Lebanon's most respected environmental scientists, to test them. He alerted the public that the barrels contain toxic chemicals, and he discovered other dumping sites scattered around the country. The Lebanese Forces [militia] were angered as their pollution kickback was threatened. The government jailed Malychef for a week for allegedly giving false testimony during an investigation of the dumping, but the charges were dropped. Months later, thugs paid by the Lebanese Forces militia severely beat him. By 1986, companies from Germany, Canada, and Belgium, secretly delivered toxic chemicals to other parts of Lebanon. Today, Lebanon is paying the price. According to a World Bank study, toxic dumping, along with Lebanon's own sewage and toxic waste problems, has led to contamination of 70% of the country's drinking water." (Living on Earth)
1986 - Maronite Catholic Monsignor Khreish was kidnapped, tortured and killed for criticizing the acts of the Lebanese Forces militia.
1987 - Geagea assassinated Lebanon's Prime Minister Rachid Karami. Geagea was convicted for this crime in 1995.
1989 - Geagea assassinated Elias Zayek. Geagea was convicted for this crime in 1995.
1989 - 1990 - Geagea's Lebanese Forces militia led an open war against the Lebanese Armed Forces causing hundreds of casualties from the Lebanese Army and civilians over the course of 11 months.
1989 - 1990 - Geagea's Lebanese Forces militia executed tens of arrested Lebanese Army soldiers with bullets to the back of their heads.
1989 - 1990 - Geagea's Lebanese Forces arrested imprisoned and tortured families of Lebanese Army soldiers.
April 18, 1990 - Geagea's snipers attacked a school bus killing eleven and wounding a couple dozens, mostly young students.
October 1, 1990 - Geagea's Lebanese Forces militia attacked a group of civilians, mostly college men and women demonstrating for peace at Nahr el Mawt bridge checkpoint. They killed and wounded over a hundred civilians in 10 minutes.
October 13, 1990 - Geagea's Lebanese Forces militia backed the Syrian army attacks on the Lebanese Presidential Palace and the Defense Ministry with artillery support. The Syrian troops took over the area and committed massacres against the surrendering Lebanese Army troops and civilians. Geagea's militia celebrated the fall of Lebanon and its army to the Syrians all night with gun shots and fireworks.
October, 1990 - Geagea's Lebanese Forces militia killed prominent Christian leader Dany Chamoun with his wife and two children (ages 5 and 7) after the Syrians completely occupied the capital Beirut, and allowed their allies to take revenge. Geagea was convicted for this crime in 1995.
1994 - Geagea was arrested after being accused for the explosion that destroyed a Catholic church killing tens or worshippers. The judges could not convict him "for insufficient evidence," per the official court statement. He was, however, convicted for three other assassination crimes, and was sentenced to death. The sentenced was reduced to lifetime in prison.
July 18, 2005, Geagea was granted a pardon that suspended his life sentence and he was released from jail. The pardon included Geagea and tens of Al Qaeda-inspired extremists who were captured after terrorist attacks against the Lebanese Armed Forces and civilians in 2001.
February 5, 2006 - A couple of the Al Qaeda extremists that were released from prison with Geagea a year before were among hundreds who attacked the Christian neighborhood of Ashrafieh in Beirut, and burnt a church in this riot. Geagea could claim no relation to that incident except that he was on air that day defending these gangsters as "our allies in the March 14 group." An hour later, Geagea was pressured to copy the positions' of Christian leaders that were condemning this violent act. He went on air again, and this time condemned the riot.
January, 2007 - Samir Geagea's supporters shot demonstrators in several regions of Lebanon. At the entry of the city of Byblos, one of Geagea's supporters shot three civilians causing permanent injuries to two, and left the third one in a wheelchair for life.
The Lebanese Forces militia was originally formed by merging several Christian groups at the end of the1970's to counter the rising Syrian and Palestinian power. However, Samir Geagea who led several battles before and after he assumed its full leadership turned his militia into an uncontrolled power, occupying a small Christian region of Lebanon and forcing its residents to submit to his authority. He turned against any Christian leader who opposed his authority, and led a series of destructive wars causing the displacement of 200,000 citizens until this very day.
Geagea's atrocities included murder, village destruction, displacing villagers, execution of arrested citizens, massacring families, drug and weapon dealing, money laundering, and finally burying nuclear wastes in the mountains of his controlled region in exchange for cash. His crimes did not spare Muslims, Christians or Druze.
On October 13, 1990, Samir Geagea's militia supported with artillery bombing the Syrian invasion of Beirut, which led to the fall of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense and the Lebanese Presidential Palace. Along with the massacres committed against the Lebanese Armed Forces and civilians that day, Geagea's militia celebrated with gun shots and fireworks the defeat of the Lebanese Armed Forces and subsequent Syrian control of Lebanon. A few days later, Geagea assassinated his main political opponent Dany Chamoun and his family.
Edited by south-lebanon, 11 November 2011 - 08:05 AM.