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Omar Karami 'outraged'
as Geagea sentence commuted
June 28, 1999
Tripoli MP Omar Karami
has expressed outrage
at the judiciary's verdict
against former warlord
Samir Geagea. Geagea was
sentenced to death for
masterminding the 1987
killing of Karami's brother,
then-Premier Rashid Karami.
The sentence was commuted
t o life with hard labor.
"I certainly cannot
protest the judiciary's
convictions but I was
nevertheless surprised
at the sentence",
Karami said at a news
conference in Tripoli.
Signaling his disappointment
of the verdict, Karami
said : "The blood
of Rashid Karami is not
only that of my brother,
but that of a former prime
minister who ruled and
worked days and nights
t o stand up against the
conspiracy aimed at dividing
Lebanon and destroying
it".
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