religion years_active children nationality birth_date spouse article_title name
christian 1960s & ndash ; present three daughters lebanese 9 september 1948 gladys samaha michel samaha
 michel samaha
michel samaha

michel fuad samaha -lrb- born 9 september 1948 -rrb- is a former lebanese intelligence operative , deputy , and former minister of information and tourism .
samaha is known for his pro-assad government views and described as silver-tongued politician .
he was one of the pro-syrian lebanese officials who were sanctioned in 2007 by the united states for alleged `` contributing to political and economic instability in lebanon . ''
subsequently confessing to the aforementioned terrorist actively , samaha was on 17 december 2012 listed by the united states as a global terrorist under section 1 -lrb- b -rrb- of executive order 13224 .
