Petition Demanding Referral of Tripoli's Blasts to Judicial Council to be Handed over to Rifi

A petition demanding the referral of the deadly double car bombing that targeted the northern city of Tripoli in August to the the Judicial Council will be handed over next week to Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi, local newspaper reported on Friday.

A delegation from Tripoli and the North's lawyer's syndicate will hold a meeting with Rifi on Wednesday to hand him the petition, which was signed by around 70 thousand resident in Tripoli.

The newspapers reported that Rifi is expected to refer the petition in his turn to the cabinet so the matter takes its legal course.

On Thursday,Abdul Rahman Diab who is an Arab Democratic Party official and the father of one of the suspects in the mosque bombings in the northern city of Tripoli, was killed in the area of al-Mina.

Diab, who is known as Aboudi Nwasi, was gunned down in his car by an unidentified motorcyclist.

Abdul Rahman, a Alawite residing in Jabal Mohsen, is the father of Youssef Diab, who is in detention and has been charged along with several others in connection with the August bombings of the two mosques in Tripoli.

Tripoli's population is 80 percent Sunni and 11 percent Alawite -- an offshoot of Shiite Islam -- and violence between the two communities dates back to Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.