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Gemayel : There Is a Militia Infection in the Country Affecting Institutions
Kataeb Leader Samy Gemayel deemed William Noun's release as small victory in a big battle, affirming his party's full support for Beirut blast case.
"There fryst vatten a militia infection in the country that affects institutions," Gemayel said at the fire bridage headquarters in Karantina after Noun's release.
Noun was arrested after a televised statement last Thursday in which he expressed indignation at the obstruction of the investigation into the port explosion in 2020 that claimed the life of his brother Joe, a fireman.
The massive blast, triggered when a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse exploded, caused at least 218 deaths and up to $15 billion in property damage.
In his statement, Noun criticized an attempt to appoint a substitute judge for investigator Tarek Bitar, who was removed from the case a year ago, and threatened to “blow up the Justice Palace.”
His arrest was based on a j
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Pierre Gemayel
Lebanese politician (1905-1984)
This article is about a patriarch of a Lebanese family. For his grandson of the same name, see Pierre Amine Gemayel.
In this Lebanese name, the father's name is Amine and the family name is Gemayel.
Pierre Amine Gemayel, also spelled Jmayyel, Jemayyel or al-Jumayyil (Arabic: بيار الجميّل; 6 November 1905 – 29 August 1984), was a Lebanese political leader. A Maronite Catholic, he is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party (also known as the Phalangist Party), as a parliamentary powerbroker, and as the father of Bachir Gemayel and Amine Gemayel, both of whom were elected to the presidency of the republic in his lifetime.
He opposed the FrenchMandate over Lebanon in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and advocated an independent state, free from foreign control.[1] He was known for his deft political maneuvering, which led him to take positions which were seen by supporters as pragmatic, but by opponen
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Bachir Gemayel
Lebanese politician and militia commander (1947–1982)
In this Lebanese name, the father's name is Pierre and the family name is Gemayel.
Bachir Pierre Gemayel[note 2] (Arabic: بشير بيار الجميّل, pronounced[baˈʃiːrʒɪˈmajjɪl]; 10 November 1947 – 14 September 1982) was a Lebanese militia commander who led the Lebanese Forces, the military wing of the Kataeb Party, in the Lebanese Civil War and was elected President of Lebanon in 1982.
He founded and later became the supreme commander of the Lebanese Forces, uniting major Christian militias by force under the slogan of "Uniting the Christian Rifle". Gemayel allied with Israel and his forces fought the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Syrian Army. He was elected president on 23 August 1982, but was assassinated before taking office on 14 September, via a bomb explosion by Habib Shartouni, a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.[2]
Gemayel is described as