Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati said on Saturday that the Lebanese Armed Forces were deployed in the northern city of Tripoli, noting that the security plan will take its "long and thorny course."
In a speech he delivered during the annual youth conference in Tripoli, the caretaker PM added that security was not only limited to a military deployment but also included sealing civil peace and attracting investments to the region ahead of a development policy.
He stressed that residents of the northern city are under the rule of the state and that it was their right to enjoy peace and security, saying: “Tripoli will not succumb to any compromise over the souls of the victims of the al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques blasts."
"I have urged all concerned apparatuses to bring the perpetrators to justice," he concluded.
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. The al-Taqwa mosque is where hardline Salafist Sheikh Salem Rafei preaches. He has been known for his anti-Syrian regime sentiment.
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.