State Commissioner to Military Court charges Ali Eid and others in Tripoli twin blasts

 
The State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Tuesday Arab Democratic Party leader former MP Ali Eid and his driver Ahmed Mohammed Ali with smuggling suspect Ahmad Merhi suspected for involvement in the case of Tripoli's twin blasts.

A search and investigation warrant was issued against former MP Eid on Monday.               

Judge Saqr also charged Syrian national Sukeina Ismail with plotting to transfer the two car bombs from Syria into Lebanon.

On another note, General Security officials at the al-Abboudiyeh border-crossing arrested Chehade Chdoud, who was charged earlier on Tuesday with smuggling suspect Sukeina Ismail from Lebanon to Syria.

Last week, the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau summoned Eid for interrogations over his alleged involvement in the August twin bombings that targeted Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli.

In August, two explosions rocked the 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.