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Lebanon
Index
The Seventh Brigade was composed of 1,700 men in 1987. A
contingent of the Seventh Brigade was stationed in the Jubayl
district, north of Beirut. This contingent was regarded as loyal to
former President Sulayman Franjiyah, whose feudal seat, Zgharta, is
a few kilometer southwest of Tripoli. Consequently, the central
government equipped this contingent with light weapons only. The
brigade's headquarters was located in Amshit, just north of
Juniyah. Units at Amshit were well equipped with United States-made
tanks and armored personnel carriers but were regarded as being
under the sway of LF head Samir Jaja, who maintained his retinue in
Amshit
(see Chaos in Beirut and Syrian Peacemaking Efforts
, this
ch.).
Data as of December 1987
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