Saqr Reveals Mustaqbal Does Not Possess Means to Arm Syria Rebels, Says Resistance 'Is Over'

Al-Mustaqbal 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 Lebanon.”

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.”

"We have agreed to the army-people-resistance formula but we did not give our approval to a resistance that destroys the army and inspects troops at the entrance of Dahieh (neighborhood in southern Beirut),” he said.

On the Syrian crisis, Saqr revealed that a deal that will be tackled at the Geneva II summit involves the stepping down of President Bashar Assad.

"The Damascus regime has submitted files on Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movement to western powers with Iran's acceptance to reach a ceasefire in the country,” he also announced.

Meanwhile, Saqr considered the American-Russian agreement to destroy the chemical weapons possessed by Damascus to be a “submission” of Assad's regime.

The Zahle MP explained during the interview why he has been residing outside Lebanon for the past two year, reiterating that he has been subjected to death threats.

Saqr detailed: “I was under threat even before leaving Lebanon and before the eruption of the Syrian revolution. Plans and maps were set up to invade my house and my car. Members of my family have received threats. My phone lines and my emails were supervised."

He continued: “I was also informed that I was watched in Istanbul, and that an attack was planned against me in coordination with an Arab group. And thus, the level of alert was increased. ”

Saqr considered that he is under a security threat because it “is forbidden to reject a dominant project in the region, that of the Syrian regime and its allies.”

“But we will keep doing what we have started, although security reasons prevent me from acting from Lebanon.”