Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Saturday said the assassination of Saleh Aridi was in line with the serial killings that targeted March 14 leaders.
"It is true that Martyr Aridi was not member of a party affiliated with the March 14 alliance, but he was working for the same track adopted by March 14 forces and that is why he was killed," Geagea said.
Geagea was referring to the intra-Druze alliance worked out by Aridi during the Hizbullah attack on the mountain region last May.
Aridi was a ranking official of the Lebanese Democratic Party headed by Talal Arslah, which is part of the Hizbullah-led March 8 alliance.
"All those who have been assassinated were killed because they were working to safeguard the independent, sovereign and democratic state of Lebanon," Geagea told partisans.
"Saleh was targeted because he had recently started working for the same target we are after," he added.
He concluded that "the threat persists, but we will remain committed to our goals until the state is achieved and until others give up their greed in our homeland."