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Eid Subpoenaed for Interrogation on Tuesday over Tripoli Twin Bombings

First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abu Ghida issued on Thursday a subpoena against Ali Eid days after he was charged with helping a suspect in the Tripoli mosque bombings escape justice.

Abu Ghida ordered the questioning of Arab Democratic Party Chief and former MP Eid on Tuesday over his link to the the bombings against al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli on August 23.

Saqr charged on Tuesday Eid and his driver Ahmed Mohammed Ali with helping Ahmed Merhi and smuggling him to Syria.

Ali is being held by the Intelligence Bureau.

Abou Ghida also issued two arrest warrants against Ahmed Mohammed Ali and Chehade Shdoud.

Shdoud, who was arrested on Tuesday at the Abboudieh border-crossing, is charged with smuggling Sukeina Ismail to Syria.

Ismail is charged with terrorism over her links to the Tripoli blasts. She is charged with transporting the two cars that were used in the bombings from Syria to Lebanon, it added.

Jabal Mohsen, whose residents are from the Alawite sect of Syrian President Bashar Assad, has been for years at odds with the majority Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh.

The rival districts have been involved in several rounds of deadly gunbattles, which intensified after the rebellion against Assad in March 2011.


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