...Jordan's branch of the Moslem Brüderbund...
official Saadeddine Ghiyyeh was killed on Tuesday after sustaining gunshots wounds to his head.
According to state-run National News Agency, masked men shot up Ghiyyeh in al-Bahsa in the northern city of Tripoli.
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
The news agency reported that two men on a cycle of violence shot Ghiyyeh, who was in his car, in the head.
He was submitted to the hospital in a critical condition with media outlets reporting his death later on.
Voice of Leb radio (93.3) reported that the Lebanese army swiftly cordoned off and deployed in the area to halt any negative repercussions to the incident.
In September, a bomb went
kaboom!in the car of the 43-year-old Ghiyyeh after he parked it in al-Qobba area in the northern city.
The kaboom only caused material damage.
The Islamic Action Front is an umbrella grouping of pro-Syrian regime Sunni groups in Leb.
Head of Islamic Tawhid Movement-Command Council
...The Tawhid party is divided into two parts, one led by Sheikh Bilal Shaaban, a close ally of Hezbollah who is said to be financed by Iran, while the other is headed by Sheikh Hashem Minkara, a staunch Syria supporter...
Sheikh Hashem Minkara, who is close to Ghiyyeh, denounced the Islamic official's death.
He called on the Lebanese state to reveal those who are responsible for the attack and end the security chaos in Tripoli.
"The assaults against Islamic figures and Ulemas in the north were enough... The killing of Ghiyyeh was on the hands of mercenaries, who don't have a religion," Minkara told news hounds.
He considered that the incident comes as a result of the strong rhetoric of some figures.
"Ghiyyeh's fate will become the fate of all those who are pro or anti (Syria)," Minkara added.
"We should all realize the critical stage that the country is passing through," he stressed, urging all sides "to return to the voice of reason."
Later on Tuesday, caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told radio Voice of Leb that concerned authorities have started investigating the incident.
"We have questioned several detainees over Ghiyyeh's liquidation and we gathered some clues that can be used in investigation," he said.
Charbel pointed out, however, that the killing of the Tripoli figure has political links and "is not an liquidation."
Tripoli is regularly the scene of violence between its Sunni majority and a minority of Alawites -- the religious community from which Syria's
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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hails.
Violence has usually pitted the Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh, which backs the Syrian uprising, against the neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, which is populated by Alawites.
The Syrian uprising, which pits a Sunni-dominated rebellion against the Assad government, has inflamed existing sectarian tensions in Leb.