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Where are the Fronts’ Leaders in Tripoli?

Where are the Fronts’ Leaders in Tripoli?
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Mohammad Malas

When there were deals and compromises, they were gone. Today, they no longer exist. Maybe they have become the victims of a political settlement that brushed them aside, after they have imposed on the city 21 rounds of bloody deadly battles that have claimed the lives of hundreds and injured thousands.

The streets of Tripoli, today crowded after a reassuring security plan was devised for and then executed in the city, are now awaiting one and only one answer to one and only one question: where are the fronts' leaders now?

Where are the Fronts’ Leaders in Tripoli?

Informed sources speak of three possibilities the leaders might have resorted to, with a number of them having moved to the heights of Doniyeh, others to apartments in the northern city that are near to the offices of some lawmakers, and the rest having stayed in Bab-el-Tabbaneh.

Just days ago, so-called Amro Ahmad Ibrahim, aka "Amer Arish," handed himself over to the army intelligence in Tripoli, accompanied by wanted Jamal al-Maneh. Ibrahim, owners of a tires' repair shop, was the leader of a 30-member armed group on al-Mankoubin front. The so-called "Abu al-Yafitat" (the father of banners) now hopes, as promised from his prison cell, for a political settlement by his masters.

For his part, Saad Mohammad al-Masri is considered to be one of the most dangerous leaders of Tabbaneh fronts, whose group is estimated at nearly 50 members. He is linked to one of the most prominent magnates of Tripoli who earmarks to him almost $ 40, 000 monthly. He had fled to Nabi Ushuaia region in Minyeh, where his family lives. Sources say that there is still no political decision to arrest him, even though his whereabouts are well known by the authorities.
Moreover, Ziad Mohammad Saleh, better known as Ziad Allouka, is the leader of Souq-al-Qameh front.

He headed an armed group and imposed taxes on ambulant vegetable merchants who transported their goods along Abu Ali River's bank and the market. He also enjoyed allocations from the city's magnates. He is still in the deep internal area of the markets but hard to reach as houses are intergraded.

Where are the Fronts’ Leaders in Tripoli?

Furthermore, Hossam Sabbagh, whose group is considered to be the biggest in Tripoli, is a bit different from his fellows. Actually, he barely likes to appear on TV. Yet his name was recently circulating and disseminating in the fresh security leakages which said he had been involved in gearing up booby-trapped vehicles. Nonetheless, nobody knows where he is or where he lives.

In addition, retired general Amid Hammoud, better known as the "godfather" of Tripoli's gunmen, was found to have run and funded armed groups inside and outside Tabbaneh. He is one of the accused of the assassination of Sheikh Abdul Razzaq al-Asmar from the Islamic "Tawhid" Movement. He is also a top figure in the affair of the weaponry-loaded Lutfallah II ship. However, despite all the givens, Hammoud is not wanted by justice. He now lives in his fancy residence in Ras Nahash in Batroun, under strict security measures.

In turn, Starco front leader, Osama Mansour, is one of the most wanted for having carried out many operations, on top of which targeting the sons of Jabal Mohsen and opening fire at their feet. Today, his place of stay is unknown and he does not show at Tabbaneh.

A hundred persons have been as yet apprehended in Tripoli while only a few are still at large, among whom Shadi Mawlawi, Suhail Yakhneh, Mohammad Nuheili, Bilal Baqar, and others, in addition to Sheikh Omar Bakri Fustoq, whose wife said he had fled to an unknown destination in Akkar.

Army units are still however raiding houses and seizing weapons and munitions.
The leaders of fronts never have they thought that those who had emptied their munitions to become minister or who made them burn tires and block roads for them, would serve them as the scapegoat of the security plan.

Source: Al-Ahed news

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