BEIRUT: A heated quarrel broke out between Hezbollah and Future Movement lawmakers during a parliamentary committee meeting to discuss a detailed report implicating Syria in the kidnapping of Syrian dissidents in Lebanon.

During the argument, Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar threatened Future Movement MP Ahmad Fatfat.

“Let us fight it out outside [Parliament],” Fatfat quoted Ammar as saying.

“The session was full of curses and that’s because of Ammar’s attitude,” Fatfat told reporters after walking out of the session.

Ammar’s press office had no comment on the incident when contacted by The Daily Star.

The Human Rights Parliamentary Committee, which convened in Parliament shortly after midday, continued after Fatfat’s exit. On the committee is State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza, as well as the interior and justice ministers.

The committee was discussing a detailed report released by police chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi which implicates the Syrian Embassy in the kidnapping of Syrian opposition figures in Lebanon.

Last week Rifi, who heads the Internal Security Forces, released to the media a detailed report that implicates the Syrian Embassy and ISF personnel in charge of the mission’s security in the kidnappings of four Syrian opposition figures.

The report was made public a few days after Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul-Karim Ali demanded hard evidence be produced over the allegations.

In the report, Rifi said he had collected information that embassy staff and an ISF guard unit headed by Lt. Salah Hajj, were involved in the kidnapping in February of four brothers from the Jasem family, one of whom had been seen a few days earlier handing out flyers calling for reform in Syria, according to Human Rights Watch.

Rifi has also said the ISF has collected "dangerous information" pointing to the Syrian Embassy’s involvement in the May disappearance of Shibli Aisamy, an 86-year-old Syrian dissident who was abducted in the mountainous town of Aley, and that there are similarities with the kidnapping of the Jasem brothers.

Several lawmakers, including Kataeb MP Sami Gemayel and Baabda MP Hikmat Deeb, have questioned the military court’s failure to apprehend those involved in the abductions and asked that Mirza be invited to the next session to look into the reasons the Military Tribunal has failed to uncover the perpetrators.