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2023-09-17 22:20:50 UTC
Christian warlord Samir Geagea's trial on charges of instigating the 1987
murder of Prime Minister Rashid Karami opened Friday, with the ex-militia
leader facing a possible death penalty.
Geagea has already received 3 death sentences since he was arrested in
April 1994, but all were commuted to life imprisonment. He was convicted
of masterminding the 1990 assassination of rival Christian leader Dany
Chamoun, along with his wife and 2 children.
He was also convicted in the failed assassination attempt on then-defense
minister Michel Murr in 1991 and the murder of another rival Christian
leader, Elias Zayek, in 1990.
Several leaders of Geagea's now-outlawed Lebanese Forces militia were
sentenced to death in absentia for planning and executing savage acts of
violence and killings of hundreds of opponents and their supporters.
The prosecution in the Karami case has asked for the death sentence and
Investigating Magistrate George Ghantous has formally charged Geagea and
2 security agents of the Lebanese Forces militia, with plotting the
assassination.
The 2 agents, Ghassan Touma and Ghassan Menassa, remain at large. The
Magistrate has also asked for life term sentences at hard labor for 13
other suspects indicted in the Karami case.
Karami was killed by a bomb blast aboard his helicopter in June 1987.
In Friday's session at the nation's highest court, presiding judge Mounir
Honein read the indictment and the defendants' statements.
The indictment listed reasons why Geagea wanted to get rid of Karami,
whose plans he feared posed a threat to his authority in Christian east
Beirut.
Touma in the Dungeons of America........ A little reminder to ALL
of you punks Again & Again.
Wait for nothingmurder of Prime Minister Rashid Karami opened Friday, with the ex-militia
leader facing a possible death penalty.
Geagea has already received 3 death sentences since he was arrested in
April 1994, but all were commuted to life imprisonment. He was convicted
of masterminding the 1990 assassination of rival Christian leader Dany
Chamoun, along with his wife and 2 children.
He was also convicted in the failed assassination attempt on then-defense
minister Michel Murr in 1991 and the murder of another rival Christian
leader, Elias Zayek, in 1990.
Several leaders of Geagea's now-outlawed Lebanese Forces militia were
sentenced to death in absentia for planning and executing savage acts of
violence and killings of hundreds of opponents and their supporters.
The prosecution in the Karami case has asked for the death sentence and
Investigating Magistrate George Ghantous has formally charged Geagea and
2 security agents of the Lebanese Forces militia, with plotting the
assassination.
The 2 agents, Ghassan Touma and Ghassan Menassa, remain at large. The
Magistrate has also asked for life term sentences at hard labor for 13
other suspects indicted in the Karami case.
Karami was killed by a bomb blast aboard his helicopter in June 1987.
In Friday's session at the nation's highest court, presiding judge Mounir
Honein read the indictment and the defendants' statements.
The indictment listed reasons why Geagea wanted to get rid of Karami,
whose plans he feared posed a threat to his authority in Christian east
Beirut.
Touma in the Dungeons of America........ A little reminder to ALL
of you punks Again & Again.
Mitil ma bi oulou "waka3at al joutha, kathorat al toyour"
let them do whatever they want, we will wait and see.
That's ALL you can do : Wait * & SEE .let them do whatever they want, we will wait and see.