BEIRUT:
A military prosecutor ordered Monday that 22 Lebanese Army soldiers, including
three officers, be detained for interrogation over the weekend killing of two
Muslim preachers at a military checkpoint.
"Investigations
are ongoing” into the killings of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel-Wahed and Sheikh Mohammad
al-Mereb, prosecutor Saqr Saqr told The Daily Star.
The
prominent anti-Assad Muslim preacher and his assistant were shot and killed
Sunday at a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Kwaikhat, in the northern province of
Akkar.
Saqr
said a committee set up by the Lebanese Army to look into the incident was
under his personal supervision.
“I
will travel to the north again today to continue the probe,” Saqr said, adding
that an initial report on the investigation was not likely to come out before
three days.
Akkar
residents prepared Monday to lay to rest both Abdel-Wahed and Mereb.
Meanwhile,
Grand Mufti Mohammad Rashid Qabbani met with a delegation representing the head
of the Lebanese Army, Gen. Jean Kahwagi, which was headed by Military
Intelligence chief Edmond Fadel.
Discussions
centered on the investigation into the incident.
According
to Qabbani's press office, the delegation told the mufti that the investigation
was ongoing and would reveal the perpetrators behind the killing and bring them
to account.
The delegation expressed
Kahwagi's insistence that the army does not support any specific side but that
the military is for the Lebanese as a whole and that it is keen on preventing
any clashes between citizens and the army and possible strife.
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