Antoine Lahad was the leader of the South Lebanon Army (SLA) from 1984 until 2000, when the army withdrew from Southern Lebanon and was dissolved.
Antoine Lahad
Antoine Lahad (right) with the President of Israel, Chaim Herzog, and the commander of the Northern Command Yossi Peled.
The South Lebanon Army or South Lebanese Army, also known as the Lahad Army or as the De Facto Forces (DFF), was a Christian-dominated collaborationist militia in Lebanon. It was founded by Lebanese military officer Saad Haddad in 1977, amidst the Lebanese Civil War, and evolved to operate as a quasi-military during the South Lebanon conflict, basing itself in Haddad's unrecognized State of Free Lebanon.
Saad Haddad
Antoine Lahad in 1988.
Captured SLA tank with wooden portrait of the late Ayatollah Khomeini (now on display in Hula, Lebanon)
South Lebanon Army memorial in Marjayoun