Germany announced on Saturday its intention to present financial aid to the various international organizations aimed at assisting refugees in Lebanon.

Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou Faour was informed of Germany's intention to donate USD14.5 million by Germany's Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Dirk Niebel, who visited Lebanon recently.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Oqab Saqr said on Saturday that he will file a lawsuit against “all those who were involved in forging recordings of phone conversations between him and members of the Syrian opposition”.

Saqr told Future TV: “Those who accused me of manipulating these tape should get the same penalization they demanded I receive and which is death penalty”.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun warned on Saturday against the danger on Lebanon that could result from Syria's conflict, explaining that al-Qaida's presence would soon be felt in the country.

“Al-Qaida is one step away from being present in Lebanon, and once here, it will announce an (Islamic) Emirate in the north,” Aoun said in front of a delegation of students who won the Antonine University elections.

Turkish authorities suspected on Saturday that two men are allegedly monitoring the movement of defected Syrian cleric Sheikh Abdul Jalil al-Saeed, who revealed recently that Syria was planning on assassinating Mufti of Tripoli and the North Sheikh Malek al-Shaar.

According to Future television a Lebanese and a Palestinian are suspected of monitoring Saeed's movement in Istanbul.

Syrian foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi is currently residing in Lebanon, OTV channel reported on Saturday, after media speculations over his whereabouts.

According to the channel the Syrian official hasn't formally defected the Syrian regime.

A key opposition group said on Saturday that Syria's conflict is not sectarian, contradicting warnings earlier this week by a U.N. team that increasing sectarianism is threatening whole communities.

"The Syrian revolution is neither sectarian nor bloody," the Syrian National Council said, two days after U.N. investigators described the 21-month conflict as "overtly sectarian in nature."

A car bomb blast in northeastern Damascus killed five men and wounded dozens of people on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

"A car bomb blast in the district of Qaboon killed five men, wounded dozens of other people and caused widespread material damage," said the Britain-based watchdog.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday he believed Western powers had no desire to intervene in the Syrian conflict.

"I have a feeling that no one has any appetite for external intervention," Lavrov told journalists traveling with him on a flight to Moscow from an EU-Russia summit in Brussels, quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency.

Syria's Greek Orthodox leader called on Christians on Saturday to remain in the country despite its spiraling conflict, which the U.N. recently described as "overtly sectarian."

Patriarch of Antioch and All the East Youhanna X al-Yaziji also appealed to warring parties to renounce violence and to start a process of dialogue.

Lebanese Democratic Party leader MP Talal Arslan warned on Saturday from the negative impacts of the developments in Syria on the local situation, calling on officials to abide by the disassociation policy that was adopted by the government.

“We are not abiding by the disassociation policy... Our border (with Syria) isn't under the state's control and the arms are being smuggled into Syria,” Arslan told reporters in a press conference.