Wissam Eid ( ar, وسام عيد) was a senior intelligence official within the Internal Security Forces of
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...
. He was in charge of the technical aspect of the investigations into the
attacks that occurred since 2004, and had provided important information to the
international investigation into the
assassination of the former prime minister
Rafic Hariri
Rafic Bahaa El Deen Al Hariri ( ar, رفيق بهاء الدين الحريري; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese business tycoon and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from ...
.
Biography
Eid was born 2 October 1976 in Deir Ammar, near
Tripoli
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. Son of an
officer
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of the
Lebanese ISF, he studied in Tripoli, then he obtained an engineering diploma in computer information systems from the
University of Balamand
The University of Balamand (UOB; ar, جامعة البلمند) is a private institution, secular in its policies and approach to education. It welcomes faculty, students, and staff from all faiths and national or ethnic origins. The university i ...
in 1999.
On 25 January 2008 at 10 a.m., despite his armoured vehicle, a
car bomb attack containing an explosive charge of at least 50 kg of explosives killed him, along with his bodyguard and two civilians, and injured dozens of people. The attack occurred in the suburb of
Hazmiyeh
Hazmieh (also Romanized as Hazmiyé, Hazmie, Hasmiyeh, Al Ḩāzimīyah, and El Hâzmîyé) is a town in Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, and a suburb of Beirut, part of Greater Beirut.
Geography
Hazmieh covers an area of 2.73 square kilom ...
.
See also
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Rafic Hariri
Rafic Bahaa El Deen Al Hariri ( ar, رفيق بهاء الدين الحريري; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese business tycoon and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from ...
*
List of attacks in Lebanon
Starting in 2004, a series of bombings and assassinations struck Lebanon, most of them in and around the capital, Beirut. This wave of bombings began with the assassination attempt on Marwan Hamadeh, then became more intense with the assassinati ...
References
External links
Captain Wissam Eid Was The Genius Who Crunched The DataHariri Tribunal Finds Hezbollah Operatives Guilty, Excuses Lebanese Terrorist Organization Itself Foreign Policy Magazine; Oz Katerji, August 19, 2020.
Everything You Need To Know About The Exposed Cell Networks Behind Hariri’s Assassination
1976 births
2008 deaths
University of Balamand alumni
People from North Governorate
Deaths by car bomb in Lebanon
People murdered in Lebanon
Terrorism deaths in Lebanon
Lebanese terrorism victims
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