Franjieh to Al-Manar: We're Heading towards Disaster!

24/07/2010 The head of the Marada movement MP Sleiman Franjieh told Al-Manar on Friday that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon was an international will more than an international tribunal, warning that any verdict that would accuse Hezbollah would be a sedition decision, noting that what would happen afterwards may be uncontrollable.

Franjieh was interviewed by Al-Manar host Imad Marmal during the political weekly talk show "Hadith As-Sa'a."

"They're telling Hezbollah: 'We want to slaughter you, but don't make any move.' They're trying to do now  reach a new 1975 civil war and chaos," he added.

Franjieh said that Lebanon needs statesmen who would be able to overcome the current tense period. "This tough period will prove whether or not Prime Minister Saad Hariri is a statesman," he noted. "There can't be an excellent relation with Hariri as long as he has relations with people of the type of Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea … and little by little he is starting to realize that his relation with Geagea is no longer an advantage."

The head of the Marada movement expressed belief that Geagea's biggest wish is to see Hezbollah doing any military action in Christian areas so that he becomes the hero and the first defender of Christians. "We won't grant him this thing, we don't need Hezbollah or anyone and Geagea is not that major force that would scare us, and there's an existent Lebanese army."

Asked about Damascus' role in the current period, Franjieh said that "Syria would intervene in Lebanon only to play a role in the rapprochement of viewpoints," adding that in absence of a Syrian role, the opposition would act the way it sees fit.

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