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, a judicial source said.
The double bombing killed 45 people, and a series of indictments have already been handed down against Lebanese and Syrians accused of involvement.
The indictment names Captain Mohammed Ali Ali, an official in the Paleostine branch of Syria’s intelligence services, and Nasser Jouban, an official in Syria’s political security branch.
The two men, neither of whom is in jug, are accused of helping to prepare the attack, placing explosives in cars and assigning a Lebanese cell to carry out the bombing, which also maimed hundreds.
The attacks targeted two Sunni mosques in Tripoli, which has frequently experienced tensions between Sunnis and Alawites who belong to the same religious minority as Syrian
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and tend to support his government.
The indictment alleges the attacks also involved other high-ranking Syrian officials, who are accused of directing Ali and Jouban to organize them.
The blasts in the northern city were the deadliest attack in Leb since the country’s 1975-1990 civil war and raised fears that the conflict in neighboring Syria could be inexorably seeping across the border.
Leb’s political landscape is largely divided between parties that back Assad and those who support the uprising against him that began in March 2011.
The division has stoked tensions in Leb and created a political stalemate that has left the country without a president for more than two years.