Informer over Tripoli Twin Bombings Says Sheikh Wanted to Target Prominent Figures
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The main suspect in the twin bombing that rocked Tripoli last week was planning to target prominent figures in the northern city, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Monday.
According to information obtained by the daily, a police informer, identified as Moustapha H., contacted Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau claiming that he has important information over a Sheikh from Tripoli who is planning to target al-Mustaqbal MP Khaled al-Daher, former ISF chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi and Salafist cleric Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi.
Moustapha told the intelligence bureau that a Sheikh from al-Gharib family was collecting information regarding the three men, including their addresses, movement, the cars they use and the safety precautions they adopted.
“Gharib claimed that he wanted to assassinate Daher, Rifi and al-Rafehi,” the informer said according to the report.
He also told the intelligence bureau that several blasts will take place in Tripoli.
The two men were detained after the twin blasts in the city, the newspaper said.
The report continues that Gharib confessed during investigations that he is an acquaintance with Moustapha and thew had business in Syria.
However, the Sheikh said that Moustapha tricked him and stole his money.
He also said that Moustapha has ties with the Syrian intelligence.
“I have never mentioned Daher, Rifi and al-Rafehi,” Sheikh Ahmed Gharib said, pointing out that Moustapha was the one who talked about them.
Media reports said on Saturday that Gharib was detained over links to last week's blasts that hit two mosques in Tripoli.
According to the state-run National News Agency, a surveillance camera spotted Gharib in the area near the explosion that took place near al-Salam mosque.
Powerful car bombs exploded outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on Friday afternoon.
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.
26 August 2013, 09:27
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lol, this magical "informer" is a hezballah agent 100% planting evidence
26 August 2013, 09:41
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He could have asked a normal taxi driver where Mr. Rifi lives:)
26 August 2013, 10:13
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All the so called religious clerics have no business in politics. They should be banned from politics as they are stirring dissent and chaos
26 August 2013, 10:40
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You're so right, FT. Lebanon would be much better off, especially for the Sunni, Christians, and Druze, being run by a purely Shi'ite militia getting orders from Iranian clerics based on a moving-target agenda. That's the Lebanon I, for one, dream of for my children and I. Now, if as you stated, we can get the likes of al-Daher and Rifi out of the way, we would be one step closer to our goal. Why oh why can't there be more FTs in the world, because it would certainly be a much better place to live in.
26 August 2013, 12:08
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in that case they should be sued, stripped from their ill-acquired wealth, jailed and publicly shamed. that way they go down the drain of history, whereas assassinations would make them martyrs and heroes...
26 August 2013, 10:40
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you forgot the name of a fourth person : and the winner is general aoun!!!
26 August 2013, 16:07
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That is what is referred to in clinical psychology as "Aoun-phobia". It normally hits people who have no real arguments on any issue. This is mostly due to their lack of vision and narrow sighted minds. these people start to see Aoun in everything/everybody around them.
Greatpierro, try Xanax whenever you have these attacks.
26 August 2013, 11:35
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sorry FT but i'm with lebanonforever here, can't support assassinations, even if it's scum like those. they are useless and toothless, alive they are nothing, but their deaths however would promote them to the ranks of martyrs and be pinned (as usual, within 27 seconds of the explosion) on HA and used for inciting strife.
and that's probably what the sheikh was thinking, looking for a spark to blow the whole of lebanon up...
26 August 2013, 11:39
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not just the address, but addresseS (meaning offices, secondary houses etc) "movement, the cars they use and the safety precautions they adopted"
26 August 2013, 14:08
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lol roar, I re-read it and the name is still there, sheikh al gharib ;)
26 August 2013, 14:11
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could be that the informer realized what kind of horror it really is when he saw the friday bombings, and decided he would not take part in it and blow the whistle instead...
having said that i dont think we can be sure of anything, he could be fabricating the story because he has a personal feud with the sheikh, or it could be a diversion.. we dont know anything for sure at the moment
26 August 2013, 15:42
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So it seems if anyone has the audacity to think outside the box and dare take an objective approach like mowaten appears to be taking this morning, his normal allies will give him a tongue lashing and an obvious shaming. @ mowaten hats off to you sir for being neutral and analytical. The rest of you, with the exception of the1 of course, especially the individual who always advocates violence and breeds contempt with insults, shame on you, you are all so predictable. Ma ra7 tokhlass hal estweneh eh? Anyone who has evidence against any M crooked politician should present it to the magistrate and let the law take its course. Here is the place for debate, not insults which lead nowhere.
26 August 2013, 15:48
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i'm not neutral Bandoul, and never claimed to be. and i dont see what "tongue lashing and an obvious shaming" you're talking about, we each have our way of seeing things and we can disagree sometimes, it's just normal debating, no offense given or taken.
26 August 2013, 19:23
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@anonyme, bless you for your tireless campaign to educate the people about security cameras and and bomb detecting k9's as well as pointing out the scam about the bomb detecting device. Ya3tik alf 3afieh.
Now, how do we convince our warring political M corrupt thugs to divert funds from their pockets to fund this legitimate project?
26 August 2013, 21:01
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nchallah...I wish this is the way it is...but I know all too well, those who have access to a politician's ear, are too busy asking for personal favors to care about other people's well being and safety. I am old enough to know how they do...they trade favors for votes.
26 August 2013, 15:45
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and i answered you here anonyme
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/95486-rockets-mortars-left-over-from-2006-war-found-in-tyre-region
26 August 2013, 15:54
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well i dont know roar, as i said maybe he had a conscience call, maybe it's a hoax, but the sheikh was named and apparently interrogated by security forces.
i dont think they would invent the whole story with all those details just to victimize, it's usually enough for them to make a declaration saying they were "informed" by "intelligence agencies" that their lives are being threatened... like oqab sakr who supposedly had three teams of assassins dispatched to turkey to kill him. wonder what ever happened to those, maybe they got lost on the way ;)
26 August 2013, 16:11
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He is a Shia Sheikh and was in fact arrested on the same day as the bombings. These rumors go in line with the grand plan of Sunni-Shia clash within Lebanon... the whole purpose behind planting bombs in Shia and Sunnis parts of the country.
If there is indeed a plan to incite inter-Muslim strife, then the same person is behind these bombings... the big question that our great politicians have yet to ask is WHO? and WHY?
26 August 2013, 16:14
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By elimination:
-NOT the Syrian Regime as this will drain the resources of HA who is helping it in its internal war
-NOT HA as it does not want to be distracted from its war in Syria
-NOT Lebanese Sunnis (Future and co) as they do not have an appetite for a civil war
-Who is left then???
26 August 2013, 16:20
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If there is indeed a plan to incite inter-Muslim strife, then the same person is behind these bombings... the big question that our great politicians have yet to ask is WHO? and WHY?
By elimination:
-NOT the Syrian Regime as this will drain the resources of HA who is helping it in its internal war
-NOT HA as it does not want to be distracted from its war in Syria
-NOT Lebanese Sunnis (Future and co) as they do not have an appetite for a civil war
-Who is left then???
26 August 2013, 18:13
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texas. Yours is the first sensible comment. I dont really care about who put the bomb, nosra or assad. I care about building the state. Now Imagine all businesses and buildings have cctv cams, LEBANESE intelligence work would be greatly improved, and LEBANESE state would be reinforced. and bombs killing LEBANESE would be much more difficult to put with impunity.
26 August 2013, 19:58
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Security source to al-Manar: The truck seized on the Riyaq-Baalbek highway did contain explosives.
Military source to OTV: The truck stopped while en route to Baalbek contained no explosives.
I love lebanese medias and their sources
27 August 2013, 07:37
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You are one of these guys that are totally brainwashed with all do respect.
Man Dont say what you hear.
We all used to follow Politicians. But its about time to wake up man WAKE UP.
They dont care about u or me.
They care about their pockets!!!!
