Session to examine case of Tripoli blasts' suspect postponed

The state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday that the Military Cassation court failed to reach quorum in order to examine an appeal submitted by the State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr in the case of Sheikh Hashem Menqara.

The session was postponed until further notice.

On another note, the First Military Investigative Judge Riyad Abou Ghaida resumed the interrogation of Mustafa Houri in the case of the Tripoli mosques' blasts.

On Friday the 23rd of August, two explosions rocked the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli near the al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques, leaving 45 killed and almost 500 others injured.

In the details, one blast occurred outside the al-Taqwa mosque as Friday prayers ended, while the other the other hit central Tripoli near the al-Salam mosque facing the residence of the former general director of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces Major General Ashraf Rifi.

The al-Taqwa mosque is where hardline Salafist Sheikh Salem Rafei preaches. He has been known for his anti-Syrian regime sentiment.

Head of the pro-Syria Islamic Tawhid Movement-Command Council Sheikh Hashem Menqara was detained on Thursday over “withholding information” in regards to the twin blasts that rocked the northern city of Tripoli.

The blasts came amid rising tension in Lebanon resulting from Syria's civil war, which has sharply polarized the country along sectarian lines and between supporters and opponents of the regime of President Bashar Assad.