●Fouad Malik's "Army of Lebanon" breaks away

After Ahdab's coup and the statement of support from the "Christian Officers' Movement", who numbered 24 officers, it became clear that Ahdab's coup would not produce the hoped-for result, and they did not in fact join under his command. In this situation the so-called "Army of Lebanon" was founded under the most senior among them, Major Fouad Malik, with the Internal Security Forces' Mohammed Nasser barracks in Geitawi as their headquarters.