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February 1976.. Lebanon War _ Photos _ Documents _ Events

February

76/2/1: Meeting of the Military Committee headed by Khaddam and considering this week as the week of peace and focusing the investigation on the kidnapping issue - The Freedom and Human Front praises the Syrian efforts Spokesman for the people of the slaughterhouse: (500) dead as a result of the storming - Jumblatt calls for speeding up political reform - Ahmed Al-Khatib appeals to the people of Baalbek-Hermel to hand over the weapons of the barracks - Sudan, Iran and Cyprus praise the role of Syria - An Israeli checkpoint near the town of Adaisseh.

76/2/2: Meeting of Khaddam and Jumblatt - Extraordinary Council of Ministers: Stopping private radio stations, return of the displaced, securing public services, budget of 76 (1 billion and 716 million) - Statement of the Military Committee on its mission - Palestinian sources talk about the importance of the Syrian role in Lebanon - Gemayel attacks Jumblatt and the left and admits to importing weapons - Arafat: Lebanese land will remain a land of coexistence - The Council receives a draft extension of its term for a year - An Iraqi delegation arrives in Beirut and a papal mission as well - Rabin fears the increasing Islamic character in Lebanon! - Spokesman for "Al-Ahrar": In Damour 500 dead, 2500 destroyed homes, 250 burned shops, 1500 missing cars,
Total losses: 250 million liras.

76/2/3: Arafat: The mission of the Liberation Army is to defend the revolution and Lebanon - Khaddam: The Liberation Army is affiliated with the organization - Israel talks about the danger of a new war - 15 thousand steel helmets and military clothing for the Phalanges via the port - The military committee succeeds in returning the kidnapped - The army is stationed in Damour - Al-Jiyeh - Barriers on the Tripoli road - The delivery of vehicles to the army has begun - An armed clash in Jounieh - The head of the Alumni Association of Al-Maqasid talks about political reform..

76/2/4: Jumblatt renews his support for the Syrian initiative, calls for resolving the issue of soldiers returning to the army and demands a representative of the national movement in the military body - Karami warns against violence - British TV talks about the Gemayel family in an interview with Amin Gemayel and describes him as a right-wing millionaire - Edde welcomes Syrian mediation and calls for international forces on the border.

H/76/2: Khaddam: Assad and Franjieh agreed on a full settlement - Kidnapping incidents in Beirut - Abu Iyad talks about looting and theft - Gemayel regrets the lack of intervention by the Arab League - The Military Committee decides to form deterrent forces - The Islamic Dialogue Symposium - Christians in Libya denounce the strife in Lebanon - Salam talks about reform - The Popular Organization in Sidon blesses Ahmed al-Khatib's movement and praises the Syrian initiative.

76/2/6: Gemayel talks about the meeting of the Freedom and Human Front in Kaslik and says that the discussion dealt with security, sovereignty and dialogue - Salam proposes electing a presidential council of six, with each sect holding a seat, to alternate in the presidency of the republic every year.

76/2/7: Franjieh visits Syria and holds talks with Assad, Joint Statement: Syria guarantees the implementation of the Cairo Agreement in letter and spirit for the benefit of Lebanon and the PLO, and lays the foundation for consolidating unity in Lebanon and an agreement on Lebanese political reforms - Abu Iyad: We will abide by the agreements in letter and spirit and we have no ambitions in parts of Lebanon - Surprise kidnapping checkpoints in the commercial area and on the Baabda road. Al-Hadath - Soviet Izvestia: Israel is working to isolate Lebanon from the Arabs..

76/2/8: Arab capitals welcome the joint Lebanese-Syrian statement as well as the parties in Lebanon - The situation in Lebanon is discussed between Assad, Arafat and all the resistance leaders - The Phalanges and the Free Men form their own deterrent force - "Time": Syria has emerged as the strongest Arab country.

76/2/9: Arafat returns from Damascus and meets with Jumblatt - The military committee takes measures to recover the stolen vehicles - Al-Sadr calls on everyone to avoid tension - Al-Jumayyil welcomes the Damascus agreement - Salam: I refuse to consecrate the sectarianism of the president and I will cut off my hand and not sign a new charter - Joseph Shader, Al-Jumayyil's deputy, attacks the left, and Al-Jumayyil accuses foreign hands - The Islamic Council opposes any written text that defines the sect of any president - The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry praises Assad's statement - Franjieh - Continued Israeli attacks on Lebanese villages.

76/2/10: Arafat to the newspaper (UNITA): We have no ambitions in Lebanon and we hope that the Syrian mediation will succeed - Attempts in Beirut to breach the agreement and calm - The Mufti confirms adherence to the entity and sovereignty of Lebanon - Gaddafi: The tribal and sectarian system in Lebanon must be demolished - Edde in London: Israel is behind what happened - Archbishop Haddad announces the birth of the National Democratic Movement - Jumblatt: We are outside the settlements and against granting privileges to any sect - Israeli fire on several Lebanese villages (Yarin, Marouhin, Al-Dhahira...).

76/2/11: Franjieh from the Council of Ministers praises the connection between Syria and Lebanon and thanks Assad and Syria, the government and people - Karami praises the Syrian initiative - Mufti Jaafari.
Qabalan: We want a just ruler and his identity is not important - Jumblatt criticizes the army law and accuses soldiers and officers of favoritism and confirms the need for an Arab Lebanese army and says: We are not willing to Reconciliation of the isolationist class - Hotel losses: (100)
million liras.

76/2/12: The Military Committee takes measures to prevent any deterioration due to the situation in Zahle, including cutting off the Chtaura-Zahle road by the army - and sending additional forces (Lebanese army and liberation)
to control matters - Jumblatt to the graduates of Al-Maqasid: Against the consecration of the presidency in a constitutional text.

76/2/13: An important press conference by Raymond Edde: Franjieh is responsible for the events, the National Bloc Party refused to participate in the battles, we are against division and against fighting, Lebanon is an Arab country, its system is a parliamentary democratic republic, we speak of socialist democracy and social justice, with the secularization of the state - the "Freedom and Humanity" Front
approves its charter and consecrates the presidency to the Maronites or comprehensive secularism.

76/2/14: After a lengthy cabinet meeting, Franjieh announces (the Constitutional Document with political reforms: 17 points, implementing the Cairo Agreement, Lebanon's Arab identity, establishing the sectarianism of the three presidencies in writing, equitable distribution of parliamentary seats, amending the electoral law, electing the Prime Minister from the Council by relative majority, a two-thirds majority to approve important projects, 55/electing the President of the Republic, defining the responsibilities of the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the ministers and establishing a Supreme Court to try presidents and ministers, a Supreme Constitutional Authority for the constitutionality of laws, strengthening decentralization in administrative work, adopting the principle of competence and equitable distribution of first-class jobs, a Supreme Council for Planning and Development, comprehensive social justice, a defense policy and strengthening the army, responsible freedom of the press, amending the nationality law - Salam attacks the document - the military committee takes control of the situation in Zahle and the Bekaa - the Freedom and Human Front: the unity of Lebanon as a land and a nation.

76/2/15: Gemayel attacks the document because it established sectarianism and violates the constitution - Edde: Franjieh's message Falsification of history - Al-Yafi: It is below our ambitions and has established sectarianism and weakened the Arab identity of Lebanon - Abu Iyad: They wanted to subjugate us in Lebanon and America wanted to eliminate the revolution.

76/2/16: Kidnapping checkpoints in Qantari - Assassination of the First Secretary at the Turkish Embassy in Beirut - A Kataeb statement expressing its satisfaction with the situation and the general easing, as for Franjieh's message, intentions are the basis and its titles are suitable for national understanding, there is no alternative to the state, the importance of Lebanese-Syrian cooperation - The Syrian delegation (Al-Shahabi and Jamil) conducts an extensive political tour in Lebanon - The Kataeb and Al-Ahrar return to training in Batroun - The Syrian "Baath": The document is the most important event that Lebanon has known since 1943. 76/2/17: Jumblatt postpones announcing the position of the national forces on the document, as well as the "Freedom and Human Front" Said Akl against the document - Salam after his meeting with Edde: The document contains contradictions - The death of two deans at the American University by the bullets of the dismissed student Najm Nicola Najm - Israeli military correspondents talk about reinforcements for the Palestinian Liberation Army - US Senator Stevenson praises the role of the PLO after his meeting with the leaders of the resistance - (Le Monde): The causes of the civil war still remain.

76/2/18: The pastor of the Mar Maron Parish in "Detroit", on behalf of two million expatriate Maronites, expresses his pain over France and the Christian world's abandonment of the Christians of Lebanon! - Arafat's appeal to the Palestinians in the occupied territories - Saudi Arabia decided to grant Lebanon ten million dollars to help the victims - Jumblatt: We did not agree to the establishment of a new ministry, Karami is responsible for errors in the document, Israel is working to restore strife - The Military Committee
Tasks the Liberation Army to maintain security in Tripoli and the Lebanese Army to secure the Beirut-Bahsas-Tripoli road - The Phalangists They storm two schools in Furn El Chebbak and Achrafieh in search of progressive teachers - Abu Mazen (Fatah leadership) confirms to Kuwait respect for agreements with Lebanon.

76/2/19: Cedar Guards (Abu Arz rejects the Cairo Agreement and attacks the document and the war was not sectarian - Storming the Jbeil Saraya and releasing the prisoners - Edde holds Chamoun responsible for what might happen in Jbeil and Chamoun responds describing Edde as crazy - Jumblatt to Iranian TV: The Syrian offer is the beginning of reform, the left is a developmental movement and our role is to open the door to the future and open minds - Meetings of the Syrian delegation with Chamoun, Al-Sadr, George Hawi, Mohsen Ibrahim, and Saeb Salam - Death of the Egyptian journalist Ibrahim Amer due to his wounds from the attack on "Beirut" and "Al-Muharrir".

76/20/20: Kidnapping threatens to blow up the situation (17) kidnapped, 5 dead and 6 corpses) and the military committee takes measures to stop the kidnapping The Mufti announces acceptance of the document as a temporary settlement that stopped the fighting The "Independent Nasserites - Al-Murabitun" movement attacks the document - Salam praises the phenomenon of Ahmed Al-Khatib and calls for rebuilding the army - First Lieutenant Ahmed Al-Khatib: The Lebanese Arab Army movement will remain Until the goals are achieved: Arabism of Lebanon, non-consecration of sectarianism and organization of the army. The movement is purely Lebanese - The Popular Front: What was achieved was only a ceasefire - Edde: There is no army in Lebanon because of Franjieh's policy, and Syria's intervention is appreciated - A meeting in the palace between Franjieh, Khaddam, Karami and Gemayel - Boumediene expresses his satisfaction with putting an end to the bloody conflict in Lebanon - Establishing early warning stations in the "Metla" and "Al-Jadi" passages in Sinai - Contradictory Israeli statements about peace.

2/21/76: The Council of Ministers gives a one-week deadline for the military to return to the army and settle their situation with an amnesty and open an extraordinary session of the House of Representatives - Unknown gunmen's bullets in Al-Burj Square - A 4-hour meeting between Assad, Arafat and the Fatah leadership: Deepening the struggle ties between Syria and the revolution - Ahmed Al-Khatib reveals the violations of the authority - Zuhair Mohsen:
The leadership of the resistance needs new blood and talks about the importance of changing the leadership.

2/22/76: A meeting between Khaddam, Jumblatt and the leaders of the resistance in Mukhtara - Jumblatt: The Phalange is facing a wave of rejection in its ranks and its dead (3500) and they have returned to Back - Franjieh is surprised by the talk of extension - George Habash on the fortieth anniversary of Dhafer Al-Khatib: I call for the establishment of popular authority in all of Lebanon - Al-Fahoum, after the meeting of the organization's central council, praises the unity of the resistance factions.

2/23/76: The national forces authorize Jumblatt to take positions in their name - Jumblatt: We discussed the subject

The government, the document, and the necessity of dividing it. There are texts that need to be reviewed. A message from King Khalid to Arafat - An extraordinary session of the Kataeb Party and decisions: Belief in the Lebanese formula, secularization of the state, support for the constitutional document, and Syrian mediation - Khreish calls for removing the effects of the ordeal - 5 gunmen detain diplomats in the Canadian embassy in Beirut.

24/2/76: Jumblatt hands Khaddam the Progressive Party statement on the document, amending some of it - Chamoun insists on the government remaining, as does Gemayel - Qleilat: My entry into the government is out of the question - Kidnapping and corpses - He calls for non-interference in the country of Byblos and announces the establishment of a new political bloc - The Egyptian Foreign Minister talks about his country's position - Brezhnev: There is no war in the Middle East, but there is no peace in it, and the situation will remain as long as the Palestinians are deprived of their legitimate right to establish their independent state - The Military Committee: A procedure will be issued regarding the case of Ahmed Al-Khatib.

2/25/76: Jumblatt returns the Americans who were kidnapped 4 months ago to the American embassy in Beirut - Efforts to form a new government: Khaddam meets Chamoun in the palace, Gemayel in Bikfaya, Arafat, Karami and Jumblatt in Arafat's office - Jumblatt: Our position is firm and our program is the program of the national parties - Chamoun and Gemayel: Security comes first - Al-Asaad rejects sectarianism in the presidencies - Deir al-Ahmar bombed. 2/26/76: The Syrian delegation returns to Damascus Al-Sadr: The issue of the military personnel will be resolved soon - The Syrian delegation meets at the Druze community house, attended by (Khaddam, Jamil, the Mufti, Abu Shakra, Al-Sadr, Karami, Jumblatt, Salam, Al-Yafi, Arafat) - Al-Assad receives Patriarch Hakim - The military committee places the armed forces in Lebanon under its command and asks the Council of Ministers for approval - Franjieh summons Chamoun and Jamil for discussion - Rashid Al-Solh: The slaughterhouse and the Karantina are not the property of the monastic orders - George Hawi criticizes the political hesitation of the resistance and the organizational chaos between the parties and the distribution of words was done randomly, and called for the necessity of raising the combat level of the masses - Hawatmeh presents the Democratic Front program and warns against reopening the aggression file - Sidon celebrates the first anniversary of the assassination of Marouf Saad Waldheim: A special fund for Lebanon - An Egyptian-Saudi statement (Sadat and Khaled): Lebanon's independence, unity, Arabism, and cooperation with the resistance. 2/27/76: Officers from the Franjieh group threaten in a written petition to resign if the issue of the soldiers who left the service is resolved - Mufti Khaled tours the Arab and Islamic countries and calls for the formation of a new government - Khreish denounces kidnapping and killing - - The Freedom and Human Front » meets and is unable to make a decision regarding the government situation.

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