Islamist Cleric Omar Bakri Arrested in Aley
Islamist cleric Omar Bakri was arrested on Sunday in the Mount Lebanon region of Aley, reported the National News Agency.
It said that the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau arrested the cleric in his residence, located in al-Basateen Street, at dawn on Sunday.
The apartment is owned by a man identified as Hamad Abou Latif.
Bakri is wanted by the army and security forces for his connection to the clashes that have taken place in recent years between the neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh in the northern city of Tripoli.
The army and security forces had adopted in recent months a security plan in Tripoli in order to crackdown on the various perpetrators linked to the unrest.
It resulted in the arrested of several suspects, including some of Bakri's associates.
Tensions between Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh go back decades but have been exacerbated by the war in Syria, where Alawite President Bashar Assad faces Sunni rebels seeking to topple him.
Successive rounds of violence between the neighborhoods have killed dozens of people and brought parts of the city to a standstill.
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