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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
President Michel Sleiman said Sunday he hoped the country would not adopt the election law of 1960 and condemned the recent attempted assassination of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea. We live in a democracy and I hope we do not return to the...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said over the weekend the recent attempt on his life would not deter his party from its mission or message. Everything that has happened does not frighten us and will not delay us, said Geagea, who spoke in a...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Future bloc MP Khaled al-Daher accused the Syrian regime on Saturday of involvement in the assassination attempt against Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea. Yes, I accuse the Syrian regime of [involvement] in this case and in all previous cases [...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Loyalty to the Resistance bloc leader MP Mohammad Raad said that some incidents in Lebanon were being instigated and undermining the country's interests, the National News agency reported on Saturday. Some are exaggerating issues or instigating some...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Future bloc MP Ahmad Fatfat said on Saturday that the Resistance's arms have become militant. Hezbollah's silence over the issue of [former brigadier-general and Free Patriotic Movement official] Fayez Karam confirms that the Resistance's arms have...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Hundreds of Lebanese Army personnel combed Saturday hills northwest of Maarab, Kesrouan, as part of investigations to identify the perpetrators of Wednesday's attempted assassination of Lebanese Forces head Samir Geagea. With the help of search dogs,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
President Michel Sleiman followed up the investigation into the assassination attempt against Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, the National News Agency reported on Saturday. [Sleiman] voiced the importance of following up the issue to prevent any...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Kataeb bloc MP Fadi al-Haber said on Saturday that the effects of the Syrian war has begun to appear in Lebanon's domestic arena. The Syrian [regime supporters] in Lebanon has prepared an arena for murder since 2005 until now, Haber told the Free...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya MP Imad al-Hout said in remarks published on Saturday that the Syrian regime's fingerprints were obvious in the assassination attempt against Lebanese Force leader Samir Geagea. The Syrian regime is harmed by Geagea's positions,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
March 14 Marwan Hamadeh warned Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui against blocking the transfer of telecom data to security authorities. We warn [Sehanoui that we will hold him] accountable [on the] parliamentary, legal and judicial [levels]...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was quoted as saying that the halt to political assassinations brought on by the 2008 Doha Accord to political assassinations has come to an end, An-Nahar newspaper reported on Saturday. However, [Geagea] voiced...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Telecommunications Ministry has turned down repeated requests to provide security services with telephone communications information on the pretext of protecting the people's privacy, security sources said Friday, as the Lebanese Forces warned of...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
A sergeant with the Internal Security Forces is being investigated for trying to cross into Syria in a civilian car with a sniper rifle, according to security sources. The sources said Elie Fares, a bodyguard of Lieutenant Salah Hajj, was detained...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Lebanese Forces Central Council said Friday that it expects further assassination attempts similar to that which targeted party leader Samir Geagea Wednesday, but claimed that those behind the attack were doomed to fail. Lebanon might be taking a...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The Lebanese Forces Central Council met on Thursday night and discussed the assassination attempt against party leader Samir Geagea. The council issued a statement following the meeting that the [assassination] attempt aimed to alter [Lebanon's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
March 14 General Secretariat Coordinator Fares Soueid said in remarks published on Friday that if Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea had been assassinated then the Sunnis in Lebanon would have been weakened. On Wednesday, snipers targeted Geagea...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Change and Reform bloc MP Youssef Khalil said in remarks published on Friday that he telephoned Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea following the latter's attempted assassination "due to their friendship." He added that the congratulatory phone call...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Future bloc MP Ahmad Fatfat on Friday said that even though telecom data was the only way to resolve assassination cases, Telecommunication Minister Nicholas Sehnaoui insists on not delivering the data to the security agencies. Why was the data [not...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
The United States Thursday denounced an apparent assassination attempt against a leading Lebanese opposition figure and said Washington was concerned he may have been targeted because of his opposition to the Syrian regime. State Department...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Hezbollah-led March 8 parties' reaction to an assassination attempt that targeted Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was largely muted or outright skeptical Thursday. Hezbollah and its Christian ally, MP Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement,...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Security forces combed the forest in the vicinity of Samir Geagea's residence in Maarab Thursday in search of clues following a failed attempt to assassinate the Lebanese Forces leader as military experts said the operation required great expertise.
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The head of the Lebanese Forces Party says shots were fired at his home in Beirut in what may have been an attempt to assassinate him. Samir Geagea said at a news conference a few hours later that the shooting occurred at around 11:30 a.m.
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Daily Star President Michel Sleiman, left, meets with U.S. The U.S. and the U.N. expressed concern Thursday over the assassination attempt on Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, with the U.S. envoy to Lebanon saying that the country's support...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly on Thursday voiced the UN's concern over the Wednesday assassination attempt against Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, according to a statement issued by his office. The envoy met with Interior...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Thursday spoke about the security at his Maarab residence and detailed the circumstances of Wednesday's assassination attempt against him. Maarab's security was not breached [internally as some groups claimed],...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Future bloc MP Nabil De Freige on Thursday condemned the assassination attempt against Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and called on the government to resign. If I were in the position of the cabinet, I would have acted as if the assassination...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel on Thursday said that all political figures in Lebanon were targets of assassination attempts because there is a third party in the country seeking to destabilize the state. What will happen [to Lebanon] if any...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud said on Thursday that the shooting toward the Lebanese Forces residence in Maarab did not aim at killing LF leader Samir Geagea. Had the intention behind the shooting been to assassinate Geagea, the sniper would not have...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Development and Liberation bloc MP Michel Moussa on Thursday condemned the attempt to assassinate Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and emphasized the necessity to hasten investigation and punish [the culprits]. During an interview with Voice of...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Future Movement MP Atef Majdalani said Thursday that those in opposition to the March 14 coalition lie behind the assassination attempt against Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea. During a visit by March 14 figures to Maarab, Geagea's residence in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
A delegation of March 14 MPs on Thursday visited the residence of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea in Kersouan's Maarab to condemn the assassination attempt that targeted him, the National News Agency reported. The delegation included MPs Atef...
