Arab Democratic Party leader former MP Ali Eid says "does not trust ISF Information Bureau"

Arab Democratic Party leader former MP Ali Eid said on Thursday that the Internal Security Forces Information Bureau is the enemy of Syria, expressing his refusal to attend the interrogation session.

Eid's comments were made during a press conference held at his residence in Heker al-Dahri in Akkar, where he noted that an Information Bureau officer summoned to attend an interrogation session before State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr.

Eid said that he refused to attend the interrogation, citing illness at the time.

He also reiterated that he "does not trust the ISF Information Bureau."

Eid was summoned on Wednesday by the ISF Information Bureau for interrogation in the case of the deadly twin blasts that targeted two mosques in Tripoli in August.


Disputes from neighboring Syria's civil war frequently inflame sectarian grievances in the northern city of Tripoli. These clashes pit gunmen from both the mostly Sunni Bab Tabbaneh district and the Jabal Mohsen district which mostly comprises residents of Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite Islam offshoot.

Tensions had been mounting since 14 October, when a Lebanese military prosecutor pressed charges against seven men, at least one of whom was from Jabal Mohsen, for their involvement in twin bombings near two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on 23 August that killed 47 people.

Fighting had re-erupted on Monday 21st October in the northern city between gunmen of rival Lebanese sects where at least 12 people were killed in the latest round of clashes.

The latest battle also wounded more than 60 people, officials said.