< ! -- Deleted image removed : Geagea steadily rose through the ranks and led several operations at the request of Bachir Gemayel , then commander of the Phalangist Kataeb Regulatory Forces militia . In June 1978 , following the murder of a Phalangist party leader in the North Lebanon called Joud el Bayeh in a power struggle with former president Suleiman Frangieh , Bachir Gemayel ordered Geagea and Elie Hobeika to co-lead a unit to capture the suspects who were taking cover in Frangieh 's mansion in Ehden . The incident is known as Ehden massacre . The attacking force ( which somehow went past over dozens of Syrian army checkpoints ) was met with resistance on the outskirts of Ehden where Geagea was hit . He was transported to Beirut and admitted to Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Achrafieh , Beirut where ironically he was doing his internship . His right hand was partially paralyzed and he never continued his education . Meanwhile , the military operation resulted in the murder of Tony Frangieh and his family . Geagea was later transported to a hospital in France
Ehden massacre
Ehden massacre
Samir Geagea