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| Saqr Reveals Mustaqbal Does Not Possess Means to Arm Syria Rebels |
| 2013-09-20 |
| [An Nahar] Al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc MP Oqab Saqr announced on Thursday that the movement does not possess the means to arm the Syrian opposition, stressing also that the "resistance is over." "We do not have the means to arm the opposition's fighters in Syria," Saqr stressed in an interview on LBCI television. He added: "If we did, we would have created an equilibrium of force in Leb." Saqr was answering questions regarding the previously released tapes of a phone conversation between him and Syrian opposition members, after which, al-Mustaqbal Movement was accused of being involved in arming the rebels in Syria. Regarding the following-up on the lawsuits he filed against media outlets that made the arming accusations, he said he was asked "not to pressure the judges as they so not have armored cars to protect them against possible attacks." "But the silence of the accusers today is a proof that they do not have anything to argue about, after they had asked previously for death penalty and for lifting our parliamentary immunity," he remarked. The al-Mustaqbal MP stated that the resistance "has ended when fighters were exported to Syria, Egypt and Bahrain." "This is not a resistance anymore, it has transformed into a contractor." |
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