Ali Eid's Brother Shot Dead in Kuweikhat, Residents Disavow Assailants

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A brother of former MP Ali Eid was shot dead Monday in the Akkar town of al-Kuweikhat, in an attack that was swiftly condemned by the residents and the municipality.

“Bader Eid, a brother of ex-MP Ali Eid, was transferred to the Rahal Hospital in Akkar with a gunshot wound after he came under fire in the town of al-Kuweikhat,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Eid later died of his wounds at the aforementioned hospital, NNA said.

Security forces have since arrived on the scene of the incident and launched an investigation.

Meanwhile, al-Kuweikhat municipal chief Omar al-Hayek announced after a meeting at his residence that the town's dignitaries condemn the attack, noting that “the residents have nothing to do with” a social media statement giving Ali Eid's relatives a 10:00 pm ultimatum to leave Akkar.

The alleged statement was signed “The Gathering of al-Kuweikhat Youths.”

“All al-Kuweikhat residents dissociate themselves from this statement and they have nothing to do with the issue in any way whatsoever,” Hayek stressed.

He urged security agencies to unveil the circumstances of the attack and to “prosecute the distributors of such seditious statements that seek to undermine civil peace.”

Hayek also underlined “the keenness of al-Kuweikhat's residents in particular and Akkar's residents in general on good-neighborliness and coexistence with everyone.”

Later on Monday, NNA said the army closed the Mankoubeen-Qobbeh road in Tripoli as a precaution against any retaliatory acts in the wake of the incident.

Residents of the Tripoli district of Jabal Mohsen, which is largely loyal to Ali Eid's Arab Democratic Party, had last year come under several assaults in the city against the backdrop of deadly intermittent clashes with residents of the rival Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood.

The army arrested many fugitives from both districts as an unprecedented security plan got underway in April 2014. However, Ali Eid and his son Rifaat managed to flee Lebanon after the judiciary charged them with a number of terror offenses.

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Comments 12
Thumb Mystic 02 March 2015, 23:10

Allah yer7amo shaheed, may the takfiris & zionists suffer for this inshallah.

Default-user-icon shaheed shmaheed (Guest) 03 March 2015, 00:45

"The Gathering of al-Kuweikhat Youths" is no more than the repackaging of "The Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade".

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 March 2015, 02:09

of course anonyme, "we all know" there is only one side to this war, from syria to lebanon, it's bashar and hezbollah fighting their own "fabrications". you remember what his holiness the repented doctor es war crimes said? there is no such thing as nusra and takfiris are but a figment of our imagination.

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 March 2015, 02:10

pajama you wouldnt know the truth if it stared you down and slapped you like the little b...oy you are.

Thumb megahabib 03 March 2015, 08:12

Another Lebanese hero fallen by the hands of Salafist zombies.

Thumb ex-fpm 03 March 2015, 11:43

I am sure you have a long list of his heroics

Thumb EagleDawn 03 March 2015, 08:38

hope that terrorist didnt suffer too much... teeeeheeeeheeee :D

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 March 2015, 10:39

Based on what do you say he was a terrorist? No matter what Ali Eid did or didnt do, being his brother is not a crime. This is plain and simple murder eagleyawn, the fact that you laugh at it shows where your values are.

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 March 2015, 10:40

You tell me about it shishiani, what ever happened to the free sunni brigade? Why aren't rifi and shebtini following up on it? Tends to confirm what I first thought, it was a set-up by his takfiri gang and they pinned it on a penniless 18-yr old simpleton.

Thumb _mowaten_ 03 March 2015, 10:47

I guess like geha you believe in terrorist methods because "anyway, in war, you hit the enemy where it hurts, and it does not mean necessarily to hit them personally. most probably hitting their families has a higher impact" (c)geha, commenting on a bombing of civilians in dahiyeh.

Thumb ex-fpm 03 March 2015, 11:11

في جلسة سرّية استجوبت خلالها مشغّل حساب “لواء أحرار السنّة” في بعلبك عبر “تويتر”، أصدرت المحكمة العسكرية الدائمة مساء الاثنين حكماً بحق الموقوف حسين شامان الحسين، بعدما اتهم بنشر تغريدات تحضّ على الفتنة والتفرقة بين السنّة والشيعة وإثارة الكراهية والفتنة بينهما، بالإضافة إلى تغريدات تحضّ على القتل بين السنّة والشيعة ونشر تهديدات لوزير الداخلية والبلديات نهاد المشنوق وقائد الجيش العماد جان قهوجي والرائد سوزان الحاج حبيش.
وقضى الحكم بسجن الحسين مدة سنة. يُذكر أنّ الحسين كان أُوقف في أثناء مداهمة شعبة المعلومات في قوى الأمن الداخلي حي الشراونة في بعلبك في منتصف آب من العام الماضي.

Thumb ex-fpm 03 March 2015, 11:11

and he only got one year, poor penniless warrior:)