Charbel: Same Assailants behind Ruwais, Tripoli Bombings

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Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel stressed that the security forces are doing their utmost in order to thwart attempts to create strife in Lebanon, reported the Kuwait daily al-Seyassah on Sunday.

He told the daily: “The same perpetrators are behind the Ruwais and Tripoli bombings.”

He also voiced his fears that more bombings will take place in Lebanon, saying that some difficulties are preventing authorities from imposing security throughout the country.

“No country in the world can completely ensure its own security,” clarified Charbel.

Investigations are ongoing to determine the assailants and arrest them, he added.

“Strife is being devised for the whole of Lebanon and not just the region,” he said.

Powerful car bombs exploded outside two Sunni mosques in the northern city of Tripoli on Friday.

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.

Caretaker Premier Najib Miqati announced that the explosions killed 35 people and wounded 900 others, including 110 in a critical condition.

A bombing shook the Ruwais neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 15, killing 27 people and wounding 336 others.

Comments 4
Missing helicopter 25 August 2013, 08:40

Good to hear, but Arsalan beat you to it Mr. Charbel.

Missing coolmec 25 August 2013, 11:02

Tigertony
I am not sure about Marwan charbel's qualifications. But I agree with you 100% on allah yel3an elseyassiyin shou 3emlou belbald
Poor Lebanon where were we? and where are we today? sad very sad indeed

Thumb Abubakr 25 August 2013, 18:43

I do not doubt that Charbel is a good and patriotic man, but he accepted to play a role that his succecssor Ziad baroud refused to do so, only because he was much more loyal to his country and does not accept the lebanon logic, fina nmashe el 7al !!

Missing un520 25 August 2013, 21:35

Im sure Charbel is a good guy, but its unprofessional to come with these kinds of speculations if there is no evidence to beef it up with. I understand that to rally all lebanese together such out-of-thin-air statements is "correct", but still they are not on a level where a minister should be. There is a sunni/shia-war in Iraq, there is a sunni/alawi-war in Syria, now it looks like its reached Lebanon unfortunately.