BEIRUT: The Future Movement places national security above any other consideration and would not oppose lifting the immunity of north Lebanon lawmakers for security reasons, Future MP Ahmad Fatfat said Friday.
“The security of the country is above any political, legislative or media consideration, and the Future bloc will deal with responsibility with any request to lift the immunity of any lawmaker from the north,” Fatfat told Voice of Lebanon radio station.
Fatfat, who represents north Lebanon’s Minyeh district, was commenting on media reports alleging that a terror suspect who was recruiting Army soldiers to fight with ISIS was coordinating his acts with a legislator from north Lebanon.
The MP said he was not surprised that the Army had discovered ISIS-affiliated terror cells in the village of Asoun in the area of Dinnieh, in north Lebanon, citing security alerts he had received recently.
“I was notified two weeks ago that dangers existed on my personal safety, and that I should limit my movements,” Fatfat said.
The Army carried out a dramatic predawn raid Thursday on an apartment in Asoun, during which it clashed with terror suspects, killing three and capturing a “key terrorist” identified as Ahmad Salim Mikati, who was involved in recruiting Lebanese servicemen to fight with jihadi Islamists entrenched in the outskirts of the border town of Arsal.
As-Safir newspaper said Friday that Mikati revealed during interrogations that he was in contact through WhatsApp mobile application with a north Lebanon MP to coordinate the defection of soldiers.
The paper quoted a military source as saying that the Army Command would ask Parliament to lift immunity of the MP, whose identity was not revealed.
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