Fouad Abou Nader
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Fouad Abou Nader (Arabic: فؤاد أبو ناضر ) is a Lebanese politician and a former Lebanese Forces leader.
[edit] Background
Fouad Abou Nader, a grandson of Pierre Gemayel, was born on June 27, 1956 in Baalbek, in the Beqaa Valley. After attending school at Collège Notre-Dame de Jamhour and Collège Mont La Salle, he joined the American University of Beirut. Because of the war and the location of the university in what later became West Beirut, he continued his studies at the Université Saint-Joseph in East Beirut, where he obtained his degree of Medical Doctor in 1982.
[edit] Political career
He joined the Kataeb Party at the beginning of 1970. He became a founding member of the “Bejin” (BG, directed by Bachir Gemayel). He was also a representative in the Kataeb Military Council, and took part in 1974 in his first battle against the Palestinians in the Beirut suburb of Dekwaneh. Since 1979, when the Lebanese Forces (LF) was established, he was appointed as the head of Operations (third office). With Fady Frem, he founded the Saddem, a battalion of elite troops, and the Wahdet Adonis. He was considered as the right hand of Bachir Gemayel who became President of the Republic in the summer of 1982. Fouad was appointed to the post of LF Chief of Staff in 1982, and of Commander in Chief of the LF in 1984. This was after the war of the Mountain which increased his popularity in the rows of the “Chabeb” (the Young Men Fighters). He launched the Cross of the LF, the Day of Resistance, and the Delta Logo. Between 1985 and 1986, three insurrection movements of "Intifada" (Coups) shook the LF.
As the Commander in Chief and President of the Council of Command of the LF, “Chef Fouad” refused to spill Christian blood, so he rejected the agreement imposed by Syria (Tripartite Accord) in 1985. Fortunately, he was only lightly wounded in the attack resulting from the agreement fighting in 1986. As the Chief of the Kataeb Regional Offices, he opposed the Taef Agreement in 1989, and the Syrian tutelage (treaty of fraternity, co-operation and coordination) in 1991. Because of this opposition, his participation in the gatherings in [Baabda] against Taef and Syria, he had to resign his political office in the party, which had chosen to yield to the pressure of Syria. With Dany Chamoun, he formed the new Lebanese Front which supported the war of liberation of the Lebanese army against Syria. In 1990, the assassination of his long-time companion, Elias Zayek, and the murder of Dany Chamoun and his family, pushed him to limit his public action. However, he never stopped wanting the end of the Syrian and Israeli occupations of Lebanese lands, and denouncing the corrupt and collaborating Lebanese regime.
In 2005, he made a discreet return during the Cedar Revolution, and decided to gather the former companions of Bachir Gemayel, the founders and the old executives, members and sympathizers of the Lebanese Forces and considered at some point the possibility of re-joining the Kataeb Party.
"Fouad" is appreciated for his integrity, his “cleanliness”, his “pure and strong” spirit, his stubbornness concerning the sovereignty and the independence of Lebanon and its freedom; and the equality, safety, and dignity of all Lebanese. Fouad Abou Nader has carried out his return to the foreground within the framework of a movement who is based on true democratic principles. This movement is called the Liberty Front, Jebhet el Horriye.
