Saqr Demands Questioning of al-Asir over Possession of Arms
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr demanded on Saturday Sidon police station to interrogate Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir over the possession of arms.
"Al-Asir will be questioned over the arms that were in the possession of his supporters on Friday," LBCI television said.
Later on Saturday, Asir issued a statement commenting on the call to interrogate him: "We urge concerned authorities to first put (Speaker Nabih) Berri and (Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hasan) Nasrallah on trial for their crimes".
Al-Asir, the imam of Sidon's Bilal bin Rabah Mosque, and his supporters deployed Friday with their weapons around the Mosque, amid a heavy deployment by the army and security forces.
The anti-Hizbullah Salafist cleric said in a statement that “a number of young men who belong to the (Hizbullah-affiliated) Resistance Brigades, accompanied by members of 'Iran's party' (Hizbullah), roamed the area around the mosque while carrying visible weapons.”
“They made provocative moves, prompting the mosque's guards to go on alert,” al-Asir added.
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