Report: Tripoli Bombings Were Planned Seven Months in Advance
Investigations with the suspects held over the bombings in the northern city of Tripoli revealed Syrian links to the attacks, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.
It has so far been found that the attacks were planned seven months in advance.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr had charged on Friday Sheikh Ahmed al-Gharib and Mustapha Houri with forming a terrorist cell and an armed gang and planting explosives in Lebanon.
He charged head of the Tawheed Islamic Movement Sheikh Hashem Minkara with withholding information.
Saqr also charged Syrian Captain Mohammed Ali and Ali Khodr al-Arban with booby-trapping cars.
Initial investigations revealed that the planning for the Tripoli attacks started seven months ago, saying that Gharib had met with captain in the Syrian intelligence Mohammed Ali in Damascus and Tartus in Syria, reported An Nahar.
Gharib had requested that he revise the attack plan with Minkara, who in turn requested to study the issue with Syrian security chief Ali Mamlouk.
Minkara has denied these claims.
Mamlouk and Lebanese former Minister Michel Samaha are wanted by Lebanese authorities on charges of planning terrorist attacks in Lebanon.
Forty-five people were killed and over 800 wounded in a twin explosions in the northern city of Tripoli on August 23.
The blasts targeted the Taqwa and al-Salam mosques as worshipers were performing weekly prayers.
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