Qaida Accuses Hizbullah of Tripoli Blasts
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) accused on Saturday Hizbullah of the two bombing that rocked the northern city of Tripoli a day before.
“Hizbullah with certainty” is responsible for the attack that killed 35 people in Tripoli, AQIM said in a tweet.
According to the SITE monitoring service, AQIM said “that vile party ... should know that it will meet retribution soon.”
"We know with certainty that behind this deplorable act committed against are the hands of the vile, rafidah Hizbullah, which stands side by side with (President) Bashar Assad in Syria," the AQIM tweets said, as quoted by SITE.
On Friday, powerful car bombs exploded outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli, killing at least 45 people and wounding hundreds.
The first bomb struck in the city center at the al-Salam mosque as worshipers were still inside.
The second explosion struck just minutes later outside al-Taqwa mosque, about two kilometers away, near the port.
Hizbullah, a staunch backer of Assad's regime.
Lebanon is officially neutral in Syria's conflict, but the country is deeply divided.
In a broadcast speech he gave at a ceremony marking the end of the July 2006 war, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah explained that his combat in Syria is against Takfiris, vowing that he is “ready to personally go fight in Syria if necessary.”
Source: Agence France Presse
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