Hariri to Akkar Residents: Mustaqbal Did not Succumb to the May Assault
Mustaqbal Movement leader Saad Hariri on Monday called for reconciliation in the northern Akkar Province that rejected the terror of Fatah al-Islam.
Hariri made the remark in an address at an Iftar banquet, hours before the conclusion of reconciliation in Tripoli, provincial capital of north Lebanon.
"We are about to conclude a major step of national reconciliation in Tripoli that folds the era of violence, which followed the seventh of May," Hariri said.
"They had tried to export the spirit of terror through the so-called Fatah al-Islam. They tried to label you fundamentalists, but they have failed," he added.
He said the Mustaqbal Movement has been "targeted ever since the assassination of (ex-Premier) martyr Rafik Hariri. That is why they carried out the May 7 offensive."
"The Mustaqbal Movement did not succumb to any of the conditions that they had tried to impose," Hariri declared as the crowd cheered and applauded.
He said citizens of Akkar "stood with the international tribunal. And had it not been for the support of Akkar citizens and March 14 forces the tribunal would not have been adopted," he concluded.