Samir Geagea is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on October 25, 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon. In his first years as the chairman of the Lebanese Forces, he served under the late premier In his early years as chairman of the Lebanese Forces, he served under the late prime minister Rafic Hariri…
Samir Farid Geagea (Arabic: سمير فريد جعجع Lebanese pron.: [saˈmiːɾ faˈɾiːd ˈʒaʕʒaʕ] , also spelled Samir Ja’ja’; born on 25 October 1952 in Ain al-Remaneh), from the town of Bsharri in northern Lebanon, is a Lebanese leader and politician. He is the executive chairman of the Lebanese Forces, a Christian political party in Lebanon.
Geagea steadily rose through the ranks and led several operations at the request of Bachir Gemayel, then commander of the Phalangist Kataeb Regulatory Forces militia. In June 1978, following the murder of a Phalangist party leader in the North Lebanon called Joud el Bayeh in a power struggle with former president Suleiman Frangieh, Bachir Gemayel ordered Geagea and Elie Hobeika to co-lead a unit to capture the suspects who were taking cover in Frangieh’s mansion in Ehden. The incident is known as Ehden massacre. The attacking force (which somehow went past over dozens of Syrian army checkpoints) was met with resistance on the outskirts of Ehden where Geagea was hit. He was transported to Beirut and admitted to Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Achrafieh, Beirut where ironically he was doing his internship. His right hand was partially paralyzed and he never continued his education. Meanwhile, the military operation resulted in the murder of Tony Frangieh and his family. Geagea was later transported to a hospital in France.
When he was a child His father Farid was an adjutant for his unit in the Lebanese Army. The wife of his father, Sethrida Tawk Geagea, is also a well-known Lebanese politician.
In his time in the Syrian regime in Lebanon in the year 2000, he was accused with the bombing of the Church of Sayyidet Al Najet and of murdering the former Prime Minister Rashid Karami. Due to this that he was held for over ten years in prison. He was released following the impact on the Cedar Revolution.
Geagea was born in the Ain el-Remmeneh district in Beirut on 25 October 1952 to a modest Maronite family from the town of Bsharri in northern Lebanon. His father, Farid Geagea was an adjutant in the Lebanese Army. He attended “Ecole Bénilde” elementary and secondary school in Furn el-Chebek, which was a free private school. With the aid of a scholarship from the Khalil Gibran association, he studied medicine at the American University of Beirut and then at Saint Joseph University. After the outbreak of civil war in 1975, Geagea interrupted his four years studies at the American University of Beirut. He was 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 is married to MP Sethrida Geagea.
