Report: 9-Member Team Executed Geagea’s Attempted Murder
Lebanese security experts, who have scoured the forest in the vicinity of Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea’s residence in Maarab, have uncovered that a nine-member assassination team divided into three groups was involved in the killing attempt, media reports said Friday.
Al-Liwaa daily reported that two of the three groups were in charge of firing on Geagea as he was walking on Wednesday in the garden of his fortified house, northeast of Beirut.
The LF chief said Thursday that the perpetrators had come from the west, not from the south or the north. But his bodyguards were unable to see them due to the thick trees.
Lebanese security experts inspected the bullet holes on the wall of the house and sent the empty shells to the forensic crime lab to uncover the type of rifle or rifles used in the assassination attempt, investigation sources told An Nahar.
They described the perpetrators as “very professional,” saying they monitored Geagea’s activities through sophisticated binoculars for a long period of time.
The sources said that the snipers most probably left the area from which they opened fire at the LF chief within five minutes of the operation through the help of other members of the assassination team.
An Nahar said that the March 14 general-secretariat, which has condemned the killing attempt, has started contacts to hold a large-scale meeting for opposition forces in Maarab next week.
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OK Nostradamus
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satan is protecting him .. bwahahahaha
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The boumeh worships himself
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It doesn't need an expert, we know who is behind it.
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a well orchestrated and organized attempt, and with sehnaoui preventing the telecom data to be given to the security forces, the only criminals than could have done this are clear to everyone now.
as usual the stupid m8 stupid guys will question this :)
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Be careful what you wish for mowaten. It is people like you that will destroy lebanon. You are bouyed with current military mini supermacy but that does not last my friend. Did it help israel? I unfortunately see a suni-she3a fundamentalist war in the future. The hariri 'militia' is a joke, crazy jihadists are not. Your weapons will be useless and everyone will pay the price. I hope there are much wiser people in your community who will come to terms with other wise people in lebanon to make peace.
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idiots deserve no reply ya Mowaten
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i agree with geha, some delsional people will say gaegae payed these 9 guys to divide into 3 groups and watch him through binoculars in thick trees then ordered them to shoot at him when picking the flower to make the lebanese population feel sorry for him....
....but in reality those who have a brain will feel sorry for them and their remarks.
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I agree @independence.....This terrorist farsi sectarian group has always claimed that Israel was behind the assassination of Harriri and the rest of March 14 political figures. They and their sub human followers never questioned why not 1 single pro syrian/iranian/hizb figure was targeted by Israel? The sit-in in downtown beirut for 18 months, followed by the armed rape of Beirut set the stage for their coup d'état which culminated in them obtaining veto power and later on taking over the whole government. The doomed Doha accord "legalized" this unlawful coup and put an end to the assassinations. Their flawed logic meant that Israel "agreed" to stop killing March 14 leaders in order for Hizb of terror to gain veto power and later on take control of the government? These people are amazing..... driven by hatred and spite they justify anything and everything!
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ya mOOwaten ya wa6i ... people died and you call it a "spanking"..."resistance" arms were used internally and you call it "spanking" tanks were used and you call it spanking ya bala akhle2?
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"arrested" tell that to the parents of those that are dead ya sefil ya bala akhla2...btw under what authority does Hizbolaaat arrest people???
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Nostradamus has spoken
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all shia are not hizbushaitan followers as you are saying. there are lebanese shia who hate hizbushaitan as much as any lebanese.
put it in your stupid skull that lebanon is for lebanese and not for the iranian extremists.
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Really FT we already know and tolerate yiur having no brain but have you no shame as well. Tsk tsk ya kaserti
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Here we go again. Lebanese doesnt need more than this to split.
I think, this guy has enough resources to protect himself, and to chase the truth. So why dont the ordinary people concentrate on more important files, like electricity, water, garbage and so on. Why do we keep orselves busy with this crap.
Well, it´s not nice that somebody is being targeted, but we seriously have bigger problems. Let the powerful people take care of themselves, and the ordinary people take care about the issues concerning them. That is how we one day will get a functioning country again.
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Like Rafik Hariri had resources to protect himself, like George Hawi, like Gebran Tueni, like Pierre Gemayel, Walid Eido, Antoine Ghanen, Wissam Eid....Yeah, that sounds like a good idea....Darwin Award for you!
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What a waste of bullets instead of using a rope like we use to all common lowlife criminals.
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For someone claiming not to want to jump to conclusions, Mowaten contributed no less than 8 postings during a period of several hours, giving us a smorgasbord of over-chewed and regurgitated M8 propaganda. For someone who spends so much time trying to convince readers that he is a free thinker, it is remarkable that he did not contribute a single original thought in those 8 postings.
The same old pre-chewed arguments were used by Syrians and allies to deny that they had anything to do with any of the killings in Lebanon. After each murder, they would ask questions like "What do we have to gain from killing X, Y or Z?". Of course, all of those arguments were advanced after the killings had been carried out and after evidence had started stacking up against them.
Those meaningless arguments are similar to those advanced by criminals spending time in jail while screaming innocence: "I'm innocent. I did not commit this crime. What did I have to gain from it?"
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I am glad the politicians in Lebanon are keeping the people entertained. It is a story with no ending. For the last thirty years or more the same story and same names or surnames. SO SAD
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You said it idiots, thugs, thieves, drug dealers, criminals
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you aouni guys are serious? you're about to commit suicide because Geagea escaped the assassination attempt.. you sound as if you were the ones shooting hahahaha.. ma tez3alo guys people die only when God's will allows it :) at least try to hide you anger 3ayb ye3ni..
By the way, you are allied with a DIVINE party.. the party of Almighty GOD (Hezbollah), right? so i bet you know that there is something called God's care... this is what hapened with Geagea.. the murderers did not miss him because they were unprofessional, they missed him because it was God's will... remeber, Geagea will not die upon your wishes and request.. he will die when God allows it!
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بكرة 8 آذار بيقولو ان 14 مارش عملتها متل ما رفيق الحريري عملها
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"assassinations stopped miraculously" that is because Fatah al Islam were killed or sent to prison. The Lebanese people will never support the M14 Israeli traitors, no matter what the western pro Israeli STL say.
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No picture of BASHEER on his wall. What a disloyal bozo. At least Bashir was a leader. A killer still but a better leader then Boumeh.
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hoooooooooooooooot, hoooooooooooooooooooot
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I don't know why you guys waste your breathe arguing with them. If they ended up capturing these 9 assailants and they confessed they were with hizbuulah received their funding from iran, received their orders DIRECTLY from nasrallah. They will tell you these people are liars and they have been paid by Saudi to say this.
There is no winning with them stop wasting brain resources.
GOD protect you