REPORT: Perpetrators of Tripoli twin blasts revealed

Military Investigative Judge Riad Abou Ghaida issued on Monday an indictment in the dossier of the twin blasts that targeted the al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli, raising complaints against Sheikh Ahmad Gharib and Sheikh Hayan Ramadan as well as Youssef Diab, Khoder Shadoud, Ahmad Merhi and Salman Assaad.

In the same regard, Judge Abou Ghaida filed complaints against Syrian Captain Mohammad Ali along with Naser Jouban and Khoder Airouni on charges of planning the said explosions.

He also raised complaints against Arab Democratic Party official Ali Eid and his driver Ahmad Al-Ali on charges of smuggling Ahmad Merhi, one of the executors of Tripoli's twin 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 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 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.



For more details, watch Edmond Sassine's full report in the video above