BEIRUT: Former Interior Minister Suleiman Franjieh dismissed allegations by the March 14 Forces that he is sponsoring military training camps for Al-Qaeda in the North, countering with his own accusations the coalition had organized and financed Sunday's riots in the capital. In a news conference held Tuesday, Franjieh asked the government for an investigation into Sunday's riots and defied politicians to call for a financial investigation into the near $40 billion debt accumulated since 1990. "We ask the government to investigate Sunday's riots. They can accuse us of training Marada Party members, but Al-Qaeda members, that is very ironic. However, we put ourselves in the hands of the Judiciary that they appointed and let them investigate the issue." The Marada Party is headed by Franjieh. "We ask the parliamentary committees formed by the parliamentary majority to investigate the issue and let's see where the alleged 1,000 Al-Qaeda members we are training are, and why they weren't arrested yet," he said.Franjieh added that the March 14 Forces were responsible for Sunday's riots and had provided demonstrators with transportation to the rally. "On Sunday morning they kept repeating on different television channels these protesters belong to the March 14 camp and that they should not be attacked by security forces, and in the afternoon they changed their story, saying these protesters are Syrians or belong to the Salafi organization," Franjieh added. The Salafi group is a radical Islamist organization.