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Samir Geagea was born on November 25, 1952 in Ain al-Remaneh, one of the suburbs of Beirut. He is one of three children of Farid Geagea, an adjutant in the Lebanese Army. The conditions of his youth wore modest, though he is part of one major Maronite families based in Bshari, which is located in the mountains regions of Northern Lebanon. He completed his primary and secondary level education in Ain-al-Remaneh (Sudern Suburb of Beirut). Even in youth, he belonged to student branches of the Kataeb party, the largest Christian party in the country then. After high school, he was able to study medicine at the American University of Beirut, due partly to a Gibran Khalil Gibran association scholarship. (Gibran was also native of Bshari). With the out breaking fighting in beirut in 1975 and the division of the city, Samir Geagea had to leave AUB after five years of study. He then transferred to St. Joseph University, located in Christians sector then.
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When fighting broke out between Christian militias and Palestinian-Muslim-leftist alliance in 1976 in Kura region in northern Lebanon, Samir Geagea interrupted his academic work to help defend the area. During the next few months, he reorganized the party militia in the north (Bshari, Kura, Zgharta). However, after the Syrian army entered the Kura at the end of the summer, he returned to his medical studies in Beirut. In 1978, only a few months from his degree, Samir Geagea again broke away from his studies. At the request of Bashir Gemayel, he agreed to return briefly to help the newly formed Lebanese Forces-but only a temporary basis so that he could complete his studies. However, in the first operation Geagea was wounded in the opening fusillade. He was evacuated unconscious, moved to a hospital, and later transferred to France to recuperate
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When he returned to Lebanon, Mr. Geagea, now responsible for the Lebanese Forces and the Kataeb along northern front, moved to a convent in the upper mountains of Jbeil where he reorganized the youth, opened training centers, and began the development of fortifications opposite Syrian positions. He established a headquarters at Qattara, an extremely isolated village high in the mountains and cut off from population centers. He remained in charge of this sector until early 1983. In January 1983, the Lebanese Forces command council appointed Samir Geagea, who retained his responsibilities on the northern front, concurrent of its forces in the Shuf-Aley sector of Mt. Lebanon, an area from which the Lebanese Forces were forced to retreat in September 1983. d'homme.
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