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in August confessed that he planned the attack with a Syrian Intelligence officer, revealing that the car used in the al-Salam mosque attack was purchased from a Syrian national from al-Qusayr, reported An Nahar daily on Thursday.
Suspect Sheikh Ahmed al-Gharib confessed to planning the attacks with Syrian Intelligence -- Paleostine branch in Damascus Captain Mohammed Ali and advised him to assassinate Salafist holy man Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi who preaches at the Salam mosque, added the daily.
Investigations in the attack determined that the car used in the blast was a 1997 metallic green Ford Expedition, which was purchased by Imad Omar Awad.
He sold the vehicle to Mohammed Hassan Mehdi, a resident of Ainata in the South, in February 2013.
Mehdi then sold to Mohammed Saleh, a resident of the Bekaa town of Brital, five days after buying it.
Saleh then sold the vehicle to Ahmed Tleis, known as Abu Khalil, two days after purchasing it from Mehdi.
Tleis then sold the car to Ali Nasri Shamas for $4,500, who then sold it to a Syrian national from al-Qusayr for $5,800.
The Syrian was identified as Khodr Lutfi who frequently communicates with Shamas' brother Mustafa and the Syrian Intelligence official.
Gharib described the Syrian official, known as Abu Jassem, as being around 35-years-old, heavyset, and having been an assistant to slain Syrian deputy defense minister and brother-in-law of
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, Assef Shawkat, who frequently tasked him with visiting the Lebanese town of Anjar prior to 2005.
The suspect revealed that he met with Ali six times in order to discuss carrying out liquidations and kabooms in Leb.
Four of the meetings were held in Ali's Damascus office, the fifth at a restaurant near the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital, and the sixth in the Syrian town of Latakia three months later.