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Bachir led his troops in the infamous “ Hundred Days War ” in Lebanon in 1978, in which the Lebanese Forces successfully resisted the Syrian shelling and attacking of Eastern Beirut for about three months before an Arab-brokered agreement forced the Syrians to end the siege.
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Master Musicians of Jajouka is a group led by Bachir Attar, from the village of Jajouka near Ksar-el-Kebir in the Ahl Srif mountains in the southern Rif Mountains of northern Morocco.
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The Kataeb created a military Security Council led by William Hawi, which came to be commanded by Gemayel's son Bachir upon the assassination of Hawi.
This unbearable situation was remedied by the Kataeb Regulatory Forces ( most notably the BG Squad that was led by Bachir ) and their allied Christian militias as they besieged the Palestinian camps embedded in Christian East Beirut one at a time and brought them down.
After the death of Hadj Abdesalam Attar his son Bachir Attar continued his father's group's music with The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar.
Bachir and Days
Bowles ' continued association with the Master Musicians of Jajouka and their hereditary leader Bachir Attar is described in Paul Bowles ' book, a diary entitled Days: A Tangier Journal.
Bachir and War
During the regime of Saddam Hussein, the leader of the Ba ' ath Party had strong relations with Bachir, and Amine Gemayel ; relations grew even stronger when Iraqi officials verbally lashed out against Israel's actions in the 2006 War.
His father Amine Bachir Gemayel, known as Abou Ali, and his uncle were forced to flee to Egypt after being sentenced to death in 1914 for opposing Ottoman rule, returning to Lebanon only at the end of World War I.
Bachir and Lebanon
* 1982 – President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
* September 23 – Amin Gemayel, brother of Bachir, is elected president of Lebanon.
In modern Lebanon, four presidents of the Republic are descendants from these traditional families: Sheikh Habib Pacha Es-Saad ( was also a prime minister during the French Mandate ), Sheikh Bechara El Khoury, Sheikh Bachir Gemayel and Sheikh Amine Gemayel.
In September 1982, Bachir Gemayel was elected President of Lebanon by the National Assembly.
Bachir was thought to have been radical in his approach, and hinted at possible peace agreements with Israel while trying to expel all Palestinian refugees from Lebanon.
The Israeli plan was to drive the PLO away from the Israeli border and help Bachir Gemayel's Phalangist militia take control of south Lebanon.
Gemayel saw his younger son, Bachir Gemayel, elected President of Lebanon on August 23, 1982, only to be assassinated on September 14, nine days before his scheduled inauguration.
Bachir told him to leave Lebanon peacefully before it's too late.
The Emirs of Lebanon used to have their residence in Chouf, most notably Bachir Chehab II, who built the magnificent palace of Beiteddine during the first half of the 19th century.
Bachir and Lebanese
* 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
* September 14 – Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut.
The massacre is in retaliation for the assassination of pro-Israel president-elect, Bachir Gemayel, as well as several Palestinian massacres against Lebanese Christians.
In 1982, president-elect Bachir Gemayel, son of Pierre Gemayel and leader of the Lebanese resistance, was assassinated when an explosion rocked the Party ’ s headquarters in the Achrafieh area of Beirut.
# In 1982 the leader of the Lebanese Resistance and president-elect Bachir Gemayel was assassinated when an explosion rocked the Kataeb headquarters in the Achrafieh area of Beirut.
By 1980, the Phalangist-dominated Lebanese Forces were under the command of Bachir Gemayel.
She credits assassinated Lebanese president-elect and Phalangist militia leader Bachir Gemayel with coining the term.
The term was coined in 1982 by the Lebanese President and Maronite militia leader Bachir Gemayel, in reference to perceived attempts by the country's Muslim leadership to subordinate the large Lebanese Christian minority.
After Bachir Gemayel tried to unite Christian military forces under the title of the Lebanese Forces, Pakradouni joined in.
Bachir and Forces
The Frangiehs, who were close to Syria, were critical of Phalangist Kataeb Regulatory Forces ' militia leader Bachir Gemayel's growing alliance with Israel.
Bachir and Syrian
Samy Gemayel ( Amine's second son ) who had formed his own political ideas and identity at the time ( much closer in principle and in manner to those of his uncle Bachir ) was a very strong opposer of Pakradouni and his Syrian ties and thus was not a fan of this reconciliation.
Bachir and Beirut
However, following the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, Israel's position in Beirut became untenable and the signing of a peace treaty became increasingly unlikely.
The FBI blames the SSNP for the assassination, in in 1982, of Bachir Gemayel, Lebanon's newly elected president supported by the Israelis besieging Beirut.
Bachir, with his KRF militia units, also fought against the PLO and LNM militias at the Battle of the Hotels in central Beirut.
Bachir and for
The strength of his alliance with Suleiman Frangieh was severely tested in that year, when Moawad voted to support Bachir Gemayel, Frangieh's rival, for the presidency.
Bachir and about
In 2006 and 2007, film professor Augusta Palmer, daughter of the late music journalist Robert Palmer, had production under way on a film called The Hand of Fatima about The Master Musicians of Jajouka, her father, and Bachir Attar.
Bachir and months
Unfortunately, 3 months later Cheikh Bachir died on 20 May 1965.
In July 1980, following months of intra-Christian clashes between the Tigers, the militia of Dany, and the Phalangists, who by now were under the complete leadership of Bachir Gemayel, the Phalangists launched an operation in an attempt to stop the clashes within the Christian areas, and to unite all the Christian militias under Gemayel's command.
Bachir and before
Gemayel was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly on 21 September 1982, in place of his brother Bachir Gemayel who had been elected the previous month but had been assassinated before taking office.
The widow of former President-elect Bachir Gemayel ( 1947 – 1982 ), who was assassinated days before he was due to take office in 1982, she helped to found the Bachir Gemayel Foundation, to keep his legacy alive.
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