Islamic Alawite Council Says Won't Tolerate Summoning of 'Sect Leader Ali Eid'

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Islamic Alawite Council head Sheikh Assad Assi on Thursday stressed that the council will not tolerate the summoning of top Alawite leader Ali Eid for interrogation in the case of the deadly twin bombings that rocked Tripoli in August.

“The Alawite sect totally disavows the perpetrators of the two massacres that happened outside the al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli and it is awaiting a legal and national investigation, not a politicized investigation linked to a foreign scheme,” Assi said at a press conference.

“Whoever is convicted, we will consider him to be a traitor and we are under the law and the fair investigation,” he added.

The cleric stressed that “it is unjust to accuse the entire Alawite sect" of the bombings, noting that "this cannot be accepted by any Muslim."

"Tripoli is a city for all its residents and we fear for Tripoli from a possible strife," he added.

Assi urged President Michel Suleiman to "personally come to Tripoli to seek a real reconciliation among all the sons of the city."

He called on Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji "not to await a political cover" to restore stability and security in Tripoli.

"Let the army strike with an iron fist against anyone who goes against the national principles of Tripoli," Assi said.

"The summoning of Arab Democratic Party leader Ali Eid by the (Internal Security Forces) Intelligence Bureau is unacceptable, impermissible and it will not take place whatever that may cost," the council's leader underlined, noting that "we are all demanding the truth."

In remarks published Thursday in As Safir newspaper, Arab Democratic Party top official Rifaat Eid, Ali's son, warned that “the ISF Intelligence Bureau crossed red lines when it summoned my father and he will definitely not comply with the request.”

He declared that the accusations against his father are not based on any facts and that they are part of a Saudi Arabian agenda to settle scores with Syria.

As Safir said that former MP and head of the Arab Democratic Party Ali Eid was summoned over testimonies his driver Ahmed Mohammed Ali had made during the investigation over the Tripoli blasts.

The driver was detained by the ISF Intelligence Bureau on charges of smuggling to Syria Ahmed Merhi, one of the main suspects in the bombings against al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli on August 23.

MTV reported Tuesday that Ali Eid's personal driver Ahmed Mohammed Ali was arrested on October 26 by Lebanese army intelligence agents on charges of smuggling Merhi into Syria at the request of the pro-Damascus former lawmaker.

Merhi is reportedly the driver of the second explosive-laden vehicle that blew up near al-Taqwa mosque.

On October 14, seven people involved in the August bombings were charged, including three in custody. The majority are from Jabal Mohsen.

Forty-five people were killed and over 800 wounded in the twin bombings.

The Arab Democratic Party has denied any involvement in the attacks and stressed that the suspects are not members of the party while slamming media leaks attributed to the ISF Intelligence Bureau.

SourceNaharnet
Comments 45
Missing peace 31 October 2013, 19:21

another party refusing to obey the state... typical M8ers...

Thumb LEBhasNOhope 31 October 2013, 19:22

what a great bunch of law abiding citizens. A role model for all other countries who have people walking around as if they are above the law!

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 31 October 2013, 19:37

I cannot stress this more. They should drag him down for questioning. In addition, they should charge him with obstructing justice. If there is resistance from his mafia or anyone else, they should be crushed and declared illegal. None of us has the luxary of refusing a summon. No one should.

Missing peace 31 October 2013, 20:04

who is spilling oil on the fire? LOL the syrian loving party....

Missing peace 31 October 2013, 20:37

don't mix religions with politics... otherwise you could say the same about christianity that has made genocides in the name of the religion!

Missing peace 31 October 2013, 20:38

same applies to chias the roar... LOL same religion, same book LMAO

Missing allouchi 31 October 2013, 20:44

who is the other 00.01% ya shattourah??? you're a joke...

Missing peace 31 October 2013, 21:28

poor FT, if you believe religion = politics then it simply means one thing: you are a fanatic... no better than hezbi or elqaeda or nusra! LOL

Missing peace 31 October 2013, 21:30

i must correct you: islam IS NOT the problem, the problem are those who USE islam for their own benefits like hezbollah or elqaeda...

Thumb arzak-ya-libnan 31 October 2013, 22:32

that is a stupid remark at best... can you show me the source of where "it was proven"? Christians committed alot of massacres so did shias and atheists..
if you live in Lebanon and are more than 15 years old.. you would know the other sects that commit massacres and suicide bombings.. but ....

Default-user-icon AUS (Guest) 31 October 2013, 22:43

For those retards who claim that Islam is terrorist culture. Ask the questions how you still exist in Middle East and specifically In arab countries. After Islam ruled the whole region for over 1000 years. From the Christians, Jews, and Coptic. Bloody retards , learn, learn, from the west where everyone must obey to the equality and no one above the rules even an Australian parliament member who booked an airline ticket taken the advantage of public money. He was fined and been accountable. And ur leaders who you do follow like sheeps kill,, steal, make u poor and live below standards and u still protect them. WEIRD People

Default-user-icon James (Guest) 31 October 2013, 22:59

No such thing as islamic alawite. Alawitism is not islam nor are alawites muslim according to their own history and to their own beliefs that contradict islam.

Default-user-icon James (Guest) 31 October 2013, 23:04

Its that sick mentally ill baath guy josh bustany. He is a christian syrian who hate muslims and loves the baath. He could care less about all the crimes they comitted against the christians of lebanon. All he cares about is claiming 99,99% of world problems are caused by muslims. He believes his own lies while satanists like the roar cheer him on. Are these two christian according to the bible? They are hypocrits.

Thumb cedre 31 October 2013, 23:46

let them continue and intensify then...

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 00:07

cedre do you really think Al Qaeda and Fatah al-islam etc. Have a chance against Hezbollah? Think realistic for gods sake you really want civil war in Lebanon, but you would be the one loosing, you know you would loose, just like you did in Al Qusayr Syria in under 2 weeks. I know you wish to see Hezbollah destroyed, but you will never do that by war, they are way too organized. Israel the most powerful millitary admits it, how will a bunch of disorganized Al Qaeda do anything then? Yell Allahu akbar and fall into your deaths.

Thumb cedre 01 November 2013, 00:20

@ mystic.77 : don't try ur stupid taqiya/propaganda with me...
It's not HizbIran against alqaeda, it is hibziran against brave sunnis poorly armed, u won nothing at the small village of qusayr, they resisted 3 weeks, killed dozens of dirty majoosis, and retreated when they had no more weapons. Concerning Tripoli, only ignorants and liers pretend that jabal mohsen is not part of the syrian moukhaba rats....

watch this haboub http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-EuGwRHMQE

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 00:26

Haha i can see in your words that you are really mad, cedre i'm trying to be a little understanding with you, but you are a fanatic, you blame hezb, but in reality you are the fanatics that will bring Lebanon to its downfall. And no, Al Qusayr was a battle between Hezbollah/syrian army and Al Qaeda from all over the world, including elite units from Chechnya that are used to fight the Russian Army. So don't talk bs please

Thumb cedre 01 November 2013, 01:30

Haboub, Tufayli summarized perfectly the situation.
The small village of Qusayr resisted 3 weeks to heavy artillery and plane bombing. They could not take ONE street so they had to destroy building by building, Hizbos were killed by dozens. When the rebels lacked ammunition, they retreated with the civilians and the injured...

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 00:27

Brave poorly armed sunnis? What about the majority of the Syrian army that is sunni?

Thumb cedre 01 November 2013, 01:31

They deserted, it's now called FSA Eintein...

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 01:41

Haha Cedre my beloved Salafi brother, we fought aslong as we could! But we couldn't hold back this Hizbushaitan scumbags that tried to murder our Beautiful Ummah. They were too powerful we had to run but inshallah we will triumph!

Missing peace 01 November 2013, 00:37

bashar's smart strategy seems to work perfectly...
1/ shoot peaceful demonstrators to exasperate their feelings and to radicalize them
2/liberate some fanatic islamists from jails
3/ wait and expect chaos and foreign extremists
4/ then he can justify the intervention of iran and hezbollah to help him
5/ and brainwash carefully people to make believe syria is under attack and bashar is the victim!

Missing peace 01 November 2013, 01:05

"The conflict in Syria grew out of the 2011 Arab Spring protests, when Syrians peacefully demonstrated in towns across the country against Mr. Assad. Unlike some other countries facing democratic protests, the Syrian government responded with violence, killing many protesters and radicalizing the movement. Civilians began to take up arms, at first to defend their demonstrations and later to fight security forces in their cities and towns." nytimes

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 01:07

@ peace where did you read that? Western media and Al Jazeera/Al Arabiya perfect. Now do you remember anything about police personal and Army soldiers dying during those protests?

Missing peace 01 November 2013, 01:10

"Then from 2010 to 2011, the price of wheat doubled - fueled by a combination of extreme weather events linked to climate change, oil price spikes and intensified speculation on food commodities - impacting on Syrian wheat imports. Assad's inability to maintain subsidies due to rapidly declining oil revenues worsened the situation.

The food price hikes triggered the protests that evolved into armed rebellion, in response to Assad's indiscriminate violence against demonstrators. The rural town of Dara'a, hit by five prior years of drought and water scarcity with little relief from the government, was a focal point for the 2011 protests."

Missing peace 01 November 2013, 01:15

"The killing started in April 2011, when peaceful protests inspired by earlier revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia rose up to challenge the dictatorship running the country. The government responded -- there is no getting around this -- like monsters. First, security forces quietly killed activists. Then they started kidnapping, raping, torturing and killing activists and their family members, including a lot of children, dumping their mutilated bodies by the sides of roads. Then troops began simply opening fire on protests. Eventually, civilians started shooting back." washington post

Missing peace 01 November 2013, 01:20

"The uprising started in Deraa 11 months ago and spread as a mass protest movement against the corruption of the ruling elite. Most slogans were, at the beginning, about the deteriorating and unbearable social and economic conditions faced by workers and the urban and rural poor. Inspired by the revolutions sweeping the entire region, the protests soon evolved into a revolutionary uprising by workers and youth heroically standing up to the monstrous state machine’s live bullets and mass detentions. Demands escalated to calling for the removal of Assad’s regime and the corrupt and repressive rule of his clan. " socialist alternative.org

Missing peace 01 November 2013, 01:23

and so on... the protests were peaceful apart for the pro bashar people who do not believe so...
bashar together with M8 claimed for months that nothing was going on that it was simple protests in some cities...
then we know the rest: bashar unable to contain the demonstrations made sure to radicalize people to justify his massacres and the intervention of hezbis...

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 01:25

It started as a muslim brotherhood uprising, that killed both reform protesters and Security Forces.

Missing peace 01 November 2013, 01:29

if you want... believe what you want. many testimonies say the contrary of what you claim.... but if you prefer to believe that the baath regime is a victim then believe so, i really do not care....

"Residents of the town said that Assad’s security forces shot and killed an unarmed man during a protest after Friday prayers. At his funeral the next day, thousands of mourners marched to a post office where security forces were gathered.

"In early June 2011, According to eyewitnesses, government snipers on top of the building began shooting at the crowd, while more troops arrived to back them up. But numerous accounts also describe soldiers defecting and joining with the mourners, a number of whom had brought guns, to attack the regime forces; Syrian state media later claimed that 120 soldiers had been massacred by “armed gangs.”
nybooks.com

Missing peace 01 November 2013, 01:33

"In more than one way, what happened in Jisr al-Shughour is unusually revealing about the course of Syria’s civil war: it was the first well-documented case of protesters arming themselves and fighting back against Syrian troops. (...)
Jisr al-Shughour was a Sunni town with a history of Islamist activism and violent repression by Syria’s ruling Baath regime, which is dominated by the Alawite sect. The refugees who left for Turkey soon became the first links in a crucial supply chain for the rebel cause." nybooks.com

Thumb cedre 01 November 2013, 01:37

He's not naive, u're just a pathetic lier or a total stupido talkin BS...

Missing peace 01 November 2013, 01:41

i already told you: if you believe syrian press and tv then so be it: i really do not care...
and if you are ok with a regime that used real ammunition to repress demonstrators, where in any other country they use tear gas or water, then good for you...
if you believe that it was all orchestrated by mean islamists from the beginning then good for you...
i am just giving you another point of view shared by a majority of people....
i will not try to convince you as you seem to be a proud defender of the baath system and you cannot be convinced otherwise when you are so fanatic... you will always believe that bashar is right and everyone else is wrong...
all this could have been avoided if bashar had listened to his people more...

Missing peace 01 November 2013, 01:54

speak the language you want, the language that suits your manhood. cedre is free to speak his mind as you are...

by the way, why should one be salafi if he goes against a supporter of bashar? strange way of thinking i must say....

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 00:46

I wish you could say the same about Assir, oh wait he had to kill a whole bunch of Army soldiers to get away..

Thumb cedre 01 November 2013, 02:06

should put the iranian flag stupido...

Thumb cedre 01 November 2013, 02:35

Stupido, this is the flag of Nahr Bared takfiris that nassy was protecting and of takfiris that Assad was helping in iraq.

He did release many of them lately, so he can say he's fighting terrorism and stupido like u would believe him. His mate maliki released hundreds of them from abughraib recently, knowing they'll end up in Syria. but u might not understand that coz u hit ur head too hard last Ashoura...

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 02:59

Cedre my beloved takfiri brother, we must save Ahlul Sunnah from these kaffirs in Lebanon! The Shiites Alawi Druze Christian kaffirs! We must establish a new Khalifah only for Ahlul Sunnah throughout the Arab world! Take my hand brother!!!

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 03:00

No brother this flag represents our beloved Ummah and Al Qaeda leader Ayman we will triumph brother Inshallah ya rab

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 02:50

Ice-man if you are Christian then i am Osama bin laden.

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 02:52

@ insulation, Narhanet is controlled and funded by KSA, - Note they will delete this comment very soon, i had many accounts blocked by them because of my knowledge..

Thumb Mystic 01 November 2013, 02:52

God bless Freedom of Speech Narhanet stop deleting our comments.

Thumb primesuspect 01 November 2013, 06:33

something must be done about this alawhite community reps.

Default-user-icon Club Med for terrorists (Guest) 01 November 2013, 10:36

Yalla a Hezbollah, go pick him up and send him to your terrorist retreat along with all your other terrorists accused of murders of our politicians and public bombings.

You might need to add more rooms to your terrorist retreat for Nasrallah whose day is coming!

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