Judge Alaa al-Khatib issued Friday the indictment in the case of the August 2013 bombings that targeted two mosques in the northern city of Tripoli.
The indictment named two officers from the Syrian intelligence as planners and supervisors of the attack, Captain in the Palestinian branch of the Syrian intelligence Mohammad Ali Ali and official at the Political Security branch of the Syrian intelligence, Nasser al-Goban.
The indictment also issued permanent investigation warrants aiming at uncovering the identities of the senior officers who gave the directions for the afore-mentioned officers to carry out the attack.
Commenting on the indictment, Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri said via Twitter that "he is grateful for the efforts of the Lebanese judicial system and all the concerned security apparatuses."
Hariri added that the indictment mentions clearly the two Syrian Intelligence officers involved in the attack, noting that it directly points the finger at the Syrian regime and its apparatuses.
“We have finally reached the moment of truth, where the judiciary issues warrants against Assad regime’s intelligence officers who thought that they will never be uncovered or named,” he said.
On 23 August 2013 two mosques, al-Taqwa and al-Salam, were bombed in the northern city of Tripoli, leaving 47 killed and hundreds injured in what has been called the "biggest and deadliest" bombing in Tripoli.
The bombings were widely considered to be part of the spillover of the Syrian Civil War into Lebanon.