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Wissam Eid

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Wissam Eid
Born(1976-10-02)2 October 1976
Deir Ammar, Lebanon
Died25 January 2008(2008-01-25) (aged 31)
Hazmiyeh, Lebanon
Cause of deathAssassination by car bomb
NationalityLebanese
Occupation(s)Police officer, senior terrorism investigator

Wissam Eid (Arabic: وسام عيد; 2 October 1976 – 25 January 2008) was a Lebanese police officer and senior intelligence official. He is best known for providing vital information about the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri to an international investigation on the assassination. However, Eid was assassinated by a car bomb in Beirut on 25 January 2008.

Biography

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Eid was born 2 October 1976 in Deir Ammar, near Tripoli in northern Lebanon. The son of an officer in the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF), he studied in Tripoli, then obtained an engineering diploma in computer information systems from the University of Balamand in 1999.

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.[1][2] According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel, the evidence implicating Hezbollah which Eid uncovered, involved a number of cellphones purchased in Tripoli shortly before the assassination. These cellphones were used by members of Hezbollah solely for the coordination of the assassination, except for a call from one of them to his girlfriend.[3][4] Eid was assassinated himself before the conclusion of the investigation,[4] though his work contributed greatly to the inquiry of the 2015 Special Tribunal of Lebanon.[5]

On 25 January 2008 at 10 a.m., a car bomb containing an explosive charge of at least 50 kg of explosives, detonated and killed Eid, despite him being in an armored vehicle. The bombing also killed his bodyguard and two civilians, and injured dozens of people. The attack occurred in the suburb of Hazmiyeh.[6][7] Even though he was a Lebanese police officer, the investigation of his assassination was never concluded.[8] Sources have managed to link his assassination to Unit 121, that committed a large number of political assassinations in Lebanon.[9][10][11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Constantine, Zoi (4 July 2011). "Parents of assassinated Lebanese police captain still hoping for justice". The National. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  2. ^ Macdonald, Neil (21 November 2010). "CBC Investigation: Who killed Lebanon's Rafik Hariri?". CBC. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  3. ^ Follath, Erich (2009-05-23). "Breakthrough in Tribunal Investigation: New Evidence Points to Hezbollah in Hariri Murder". Der Spiegel. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
  4. ^ a b Norton, Augustus R. (2018). Hezbollah: a short history. Princeton studies in Muslim politics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-691-18088-5.
  5. ^ Ronen Bergman. (15 February 2015). "The Hezbollah Connection". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Beirut car bomb kills police intelligence officer". Reuters. 26 January 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Car Bomb Kills a Top Lebanese Terrorism Investigator". NY Times. 26 January 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  8. ^ DC (ACW), Arab Center Washington (2024-03-01). "The Limits of Justice in Lebanon—and What It Means for the Future of the Country". Arab Center Washington DC. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
  9. ^ Chidiac, Emad (2022). "Lebanon's Unsolved Political Killings: A Brief Recent History".
  10. ^ "Lists Of Opponents .. Will The Assassination Unit "121" Of The "Hezbollah" Militia Move? - MENA Research Center". 2021-02-15. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
  11. ^ Levitt, Matthew (2023). "Episode 8: Hezbollah Assassinations Unit 121".
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