Dory Chamoun Absolves Geagea from Guilt in Danny's Assassination

National Liberal Party leader Dory Chamoun has publicly exonerated Samir Geagea from murdering his brother Danny in 1990 and said "I believe the Syrian brothers played the main role in the assassination," An Nahar reported on Monday. "My brother Danny and his family were murdered after the Syrians entered the eastern region," Dory Chamoun said in a rally held Sunday in Jezzine, the biggest Christian town in south Lebanon. The 'eastern region' means Lebanon's Christian heartland. "The evidence upon which Samir Geagea was convicted was insufficient and impractical," said Chamoun in his first public accusation that the Syrians had engineering Danny Chamoun's murder along with his half-German wife Ingrid and their two small sons, Tarek and Julian, at their house in Baabda. "I demand a new investigation to ascertain who the real assassins were," Dory said at a time the Lebanese Forces are mounting a week-long campaign of demonstrations and sits-in for the unconditional release of the LF commander from 11 years in prison at the defense ministry compound in Yarze. A Beirut supreme court had convicted Geagea of having masterminded Danny's killing and gave him a death sentence that was commuted to life imprisonment.