BEIRUT, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese majority leader Saad Hariri has invited an Arab League (AL) delegation to Lebanon to look into "confessions" aired by Syrian state television last week about alleged links between Fattah al-Islam and Hariri's party Al-Moustaqbal, local Naharnet website reported Thursday.

    One of Fattah al-Islam suspects, Wafa Abssi, the daughter of the group's leader Shaker Abssi, appeared on the Syrian television and claimed that the Al-Moustaqbal movement used to finance the group.

    "Hariri called (AL) chief Amr Moussa and asked him to form a fact finding Arab committee to investigate the allegations," a statement Thursday by Hariri's office said.

    The statement accused the Syrian regime of "trying desperately to put its hands on Lebanon and control its national sovereignty."

    The delegation is expected to arrive in Beirut on Friday. It would "stop Syrian attempts from blaming Lebanon for spreading terror, a game which only the Syrian regime is good at," the statement added.

    The Syrian television last week aired confessions by several member of Fattah al-Islam, who are accused of being behind the Sept. 27 car bomb in southern Damascus that killed 17 people.

    Fatah al-Islam is believed to be an al-Qaida-inspired group which has taken refuge in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon.

    The Lebanese government lists Fatah al-Islam as a terrorist network aimed at destabilizing Lebanon and adopted a tough stand against it last year.

    The Lebanese army battled with the militants of Fatah al-Islam in the Nahr al-Bared camp in May 2007. The bloodiest internal violence since the Lebanese 1975-1990 civil war killed more than 200 people.