Geagea Out Saturday, Says from Behind Bullet-Proof Glass: 'No More Wars'
Samir Geagea's parole bill is published by the official gazette on Thursday, opening the way for his prompt release from the prison of the defense ministry in Yarze any moment. But one Beirut newspaper close to President Lahoud said the leader of the Lebanese forces would leave jail on Saturday.
Al Bayrak daily said legal and judicial formalities after the bill's official publication would take some 48 hours, making it most probable that he would walk out a free man from Yarze Saturday morning. So will the detainees of the Dinniyeh and Majdal Anjar anti-government hostilities.
Mrs. Geagea is working out the arrangements for her husband's trip from Yarze straight to Beirut airport upon his release to catch a flight either to London or Paris, where he will undergo extensive medical tests and some body-building processes before returning to Lebanon.
Mrs. Sitrida Geagea and senior LF lieutenants are probing options for the Yarze-airport trip by a motorcade of armor-plated limousines or by an army helicopter after a brief reunion with his parents at the ministry compound, media reports said.
The London-based Al Hayat newspaper ran on Thursday an interview it conducted with Geagea in the Yarze jail shortly before Parliament unanimously voted on his parole Monday, saying he spoke to the interviewer from behind a bullet-proof glass curtain set up by prison officials.
It was his first press interview he was allowed to give during his 11 years and nearly three months in jail. "I haven't read a newspaper since my arrest on April 21, 1994 and wasn't allowed to listen to radios or watch television until very recently," Geagea said.
He said all political forces on the Lebanese spectrum should join hands to build future Lebanon by reform programs and democratic means of dialogue. "Return to the violence of the past has been rendered impossible."
Geagea said he felt 'great pain' when he knew of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination. "I was on good terms with him. His absence with the weight he carried on the pan-Arab and international level is a loss for Lebanon," Geagea said, according to Al Hayat.
He paid tribute to the promise Saad Hariri holds and said Lebanon is in dire need nowadays to the "policy of stretched out hand rather that boycott and isolation."
Geagea also expressed satisfaction over the strong showing of the Lebanese Forces in the May-June elections, speaking affectionately of his wife and the endurance she had to put up with during his imprisonment.
"Lebanon's priorities at present should focus on safeguarding stability and making dialogue the only language among the Lebanese to cope with their political and economic woes," Geagea said, Al Hayat reported.
Al Bayrak daily said legal and judicial formalities after the bill's official publication would take some 48 hours, making it most probable that he would walk out a free man from Yarze Saturday morning. So will the detainees of the Dinniyeh and Majdal Anjar anti-government hostilities.
Mrs. Geagea is working out the arrangements for her husband's trip from Yarze straight to Beirut airport upon his release to catch a flight either to London or Paris, where he will undergo extensive medical tests and some body-building processes before returning to Lebanon.
Mrs. Sitrida Geagea and senior LF lieutenants are probing options for the Yarze-airport trip by a motorcade of armor-plated limousines or by an army helicopter after a brief reunion with his parents at the ministry compound, media reports said.
The London-based Al Hayat newspaper ran on Thursday an interview it conducted with Geagea in the Yarze jail shortly before Parliament unanimously voted on his parole Monday, saying he spoke to the interviewer from behind a bullet-proof glass curtain set up by prison officials.
It was his first press interview he was allowed to give during his 11 years and nearly three months in jail. "I haven't read a newspaper since my arrest on April 21, 1994 and wasn't allowed to listen to radios or watch television until very recently," Geagea said.
He said all political forces on the Lebanese spectrum should join hands to build future Lebanon by reform programs and democratic means of dialogue. "Return to the violence of the past has been rendered impossible."
Geagea said he felt 'great pain' when he knew of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination. "I was on good terms with him. His absence with the weight he carried on the pan-Arab and international level is a loss for Lebanon," Geagea said, according to Al Hayat.
He paid tribute to the promise Saad Hariri holds and said Lebanon is in dire need nowadays to the "policy of stretched out hand rather that boycott and isolation."
Geagea also expressed satisfaction over the strong showing of the Lebanese Forces in the May-June elections, speaking affectionately of his wife and the endurance she had to put up with during his imprisonment.
"Lebanon's priorities at present should focus on safeguarding stability and making dialogue the only language among the Lebanese to cope with their political and economic woes," Geagea said, Al Hayat reported.
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