MP Sahili: Accusing Hezbollah in the Arsal incident is far from the truth

Loyalty to the Resistance Deputy Nawar Sahili said on Tuesday that MPs Khaled Daher, Mouin Merehbi, and Mohamad Kabbara are trying to mislead the implications of the Arsal incident and said that the Future Movement's accusations against Hezbollah are "unfair and far from the truth".                              

MP Sahili said that the videos and pictures speak for themselves and show who the victim was, calling for the prosecution of those involved in attacking the LAF.                                           
"We would've hoped that the MPs from the other team remain objective and not take such a radical stance," Sahili concluded.                  

On Friday February 1st, 2013, LAF troops were ambushed while trying to detain fugitive, Khaled Hmeid, suspected of involvement in the 2011 kidnapping of seven Estonian tourists. They were abducted in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley and held for nearly four months before being released in July that year.     

Some security officials have said that Hmeid crossed the border into Syria over the past months to fight with rebels trying to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad. Many in Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town, are sympathetic to Syrian rebels                  

These as fears of a Syrian spillover are mounting in Lebanon.                                

LBCI showed photographs Sunday of uniformed soldiers being held in the municipality building in Arsal. Some of the soldiers had bruises, and others were bloody. Some residents in Arsal have said that the troops who were ambushed were in civilian clothes and using civilian cars. They said they believed they were pro-government Syrian militiamen who crossed the border from Syria to capture Hmeid.               

The death of the two soldiers have stirred the emotions of Lebanese Army supporters leading many to cut off roads and burn tires as a reaction to the crimes.