Sheikh Minkara Detained in Connection to Tripoli Bombings
Head of the pro-Syria Islamic Tawhid Movement-Command Council Sheikh Hashem Minkara was detained on Thursday over “withholding information” related to the deadly bombings that rocked the northern city of Tripoli, reported the National News Agency.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr ordered his detention for investigation in the case.
Minkara was summoned by the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau earlier on Thursday in order to give his testimony.
He was later ordered to be detained on charges of withholding information.
He joins the suspect Sheikh Ahmed al-Gharib and the informant Mustafa Houri, who are both detained in connection with the blasts that took place last Friday.
Later on Thursday, Future TV quoted judicial sources as saying that "Syrian regime officers are behind the Tripoli bombings."
Sources informed on the investigations told MTV that "Minkara's situation is difficult and he was aware that the bombings will take place."
"His ties to Ahmed al-Gharib are being investigated, especially that he had tasked the latter to follow up several dossiers with the Syrian regime," the sources said.
MTV said Houri, Minkara and al-Gharib will be referred to the military judiciary and that Judge Saqr would charge them Friday with "belonging to a terrorist group."
Gharib and Houri both failed a lie detection test they had to take over their alleged links to that blasts.
The test revealed contradictions in Gharib's testimony in the case, reported An Nahar daily on Thursday.
Forty-five people were killed and at least 800 wounded in the Tripoli bombings that targeted the Taqwa and al-Salam mosques as worshipers were performing weekly prayers.
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