High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Antoine Frangieh (1 September 1941 - 13 June 1978, better known by his diminutive, Tony) was a Lebanese politician and militia leader during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War. In the early 1970s, when factions within Lebanon started to form militias, the Frangieh clan formed the Marada Brigade, also known as the Zghorta Liberation Army, under the command of Tony Frangieh. The Marada mainly operated out of Tripoli and northern Lebanon, the base of the Frangieh clan. The Lebanese Civil War witnessed many shifting alliances where the allies of today became the enemies of tomorrow.