I left behind me a creepy bloodshed and curfew in my country Egypt. Tripoli is a very quiet and beautiful costal city,the children are brilliant, but today that quiet city turned into turmoil, or Two car bombs targeted Sunni’ two mosques in Tripoli,killing at least 27 and wounding over 400 people. I’m an independent photographer from Egypt, never travelled before these days, or I’m in Tripoili,Lebanon to train the Syrian refugees’ children in a poor camp there. It’s difficult for me to fully understand the political scene in Lebanon, but what obvious is that, or it’s a bloody one. I attain care about people,I went there, it’s two blocks away from the Syrian refugee camp, and armed Sunnis with AK47’s and sniper guns in a raid of their cars patrolling the surrounding streets,police and army soldiers, (I was with my friend Tunisian photographer: Ali Bou Zoaidh) they asked us nicely : what media platform you belong to ? We replied : “we are just Photographers and photography coaches” .. They allowed us to pass through the yellow tape (Caution tape), and too many armored vehicles and heavy presence of the detectives (judicial police) and public security and CID .. A very large amount of wrecked cars surrounding the mosque,vegetables (corn and tomatoes) lying on the ground, blood stains on the mosque stairs (mosque name in As-salam meaning peace!) Littoral buildings (were too beautiful) strongly damaged with blood stains mixed with glass and shrapnel.. The scene was very dire and malformed. The Red Cross says that this is the largest number of victims in Lebanon since I attain not know.. But it's all fairly different when you stumble stuck in debris and find out the worshipers went to heaven to meet his Lord and has left his sign with his own blood on the very same wall of the mosque. Size of the crater where the explosion.. Khaled ..the Syrian refugee who I met since I came, or I asked his family about him to reassure that he’s not pain,he worked so tough in cleaning the mosque, once we saw each other’s, or he took throw himself into my arms,he drenched in sweat, was strongly shaking and trembling, or we didn’t find words,I just asked him where should I donate blood, he told me with no voice that “there’s no need now”, and The Imam of the Mosque performed the dusk prayer and used the Holy Quran versus : "Some of them died and the others are just waiting" and he cried. Public Security Bureau interrogated us,in their office, which is located at the bottom of the overlooking building exactly to place the bombing and that happens (or it’s not just a coincidence) that is inhabited by General Ashraf Rifi .. "Lion of the Sunna in Lebanon" as described in the banners scattered all over Tripoli, or A large photo of the general was hung up there,many heavily armed, jumpy, or secret service agents were in the room,they professionally (very) interrogated us, checked our cell phones (calls history and messages) checked whether there’s viber or whats APP, and checked our passports and visas,he took a copy of them and took photos for us, as a rapid/fast and routine procedures. The officer told me that he was raised in neighborhood exactly next to my venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) neighborhood in Cairo Egypt !!, or told me that he misses the Egyptian Mango juice,what a small world, what a weird world! Finally they released us “please excuse us, or disappear directly to your hotel” Hasan Amin Tripoli,North Lebanon 23-8-2013
Source: cnn.com