Lebanese Front. The incident is known as the Ehden massacre. Kataeb member at the time Samir Geagea, who allegedly headed the Phalangist force responsible for the Ehden massacre, admitted that he was among the "military squad" that was in charge of the Ehden "operation", but he denied taking part in the massacre, claiming that he was shot in his right hand before getting to the area and was taken to a hospital. Elie Hobeika has always denied taking part in the killing. Modern politics After the 2005 legislative elections, the Marada became a member of the (pro-Syrian) opposition alliance together with Hezbollah. In June 2006, the Marada Movement was officially launched as a political party during a ceremony attended by supporters and representatives from Hezbollah, Amal Movement, the Free Patriotic Movement, and several pro-Syrian political figures. Controversy Killings Amid tensions in the North between the Kataeb and Marada parties when the Kataeb tried to expend their power in the region, Marada militiamen assassinated Joud el Bayeh, a Kataeb leader in Zgharta, which ignited the Ehden massacre. To seek revenge for the Ehden massacre, on 28 June 1978, Marada brigades affiliates captured and killed 26 Kataeb members in the villages of Qaa and Ras Baalback. On 2 May 1987, a Zgharta unit called Marada 3/400 setup an ambush to kill Bahaa Douaihy and Roumanos Douaihy amid the long-running Frangieh and Douaihy clans conflict. Between 2005 and 2008 numerous attacks targeted and killed multiple Lebanese Forces members. Those killed include: Riad Abi Khater in Batroun, Pierre Ishac in Bsarma and Tony Issa in Dahr al ain. Attacks The Marada militia destroyed the house of Greek Orthodox MP Fouad Ghosn in the town of Kousba in the Koura district after he voted for Bachir Gemayel during the 1982 Lebanese presidential election. List of Marada leaders Suleiman Frangieh (1967–1976) Tony Frangieh (1976–1978) Robert Frangieh (1978–1992) Suleiman Frangieh, Jr. (1992–present) See also Army of Free Lebanon Ehden massacre Lebanese Civil War Lebanese Front Lebanese National Salvation Front Marada Brigade References Bibliography Claire Hoy and Victor Ostrovsky, By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer, St. Martin's Press, New York 1990. Denise Ammoun, Histoire du Liban contemporain: Tome 2 1943-1990, Fayard, Paris 2005. (in French) Edgar O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92, Palgrave Macmillan, London 1998. Rex Brynen, Sanctuary and Survival: the PLO in Lebanon, Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. Robert Fisk, Pity