WikiLeaks: Harb Requested U.S. Help in Persuading LBC to Support March 14 Camp

A leaked U.S. Embassy cable, dated November 2008, revealed that MP Butros Harb sought U.S. help in convincing three sides in Lebanon to support the March 14 camp.

The WikiLeaks cable, published exclusively in Al-Akhbar newspaper on Friday, spoke of a meeting between the MP and then U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michele Sison.

Harb wanted the U.S. to persuade MP Michel Murr, the Tashnag party, and LBC to back the March 14 camp’s democratic goals, said the cable.

The MP explained that “Christians don’t watch Future television” and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea’s attempts to regain ownership of LBC “is a big mistake.”

He explained that cooperating with the station is the better than launching a new one.

Furthermore, he revealed that MPs Walid Jumblat, Marwan Hamadeh, and others in the March 14 camp supported this view.