State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Tuesday Arab Democratic Party chief Ali Eid and his driver Ahmed Mohammed Ali with helping a suspect in the Tripoli bombings escape justice, reported the National News Agency.

They were charged with helping suspect Ahmed Merhi flee to Syria.

European Union Ambassador to Lebanon Angelina Eichhorst has stopped short of revealing the effects of an EU decision to put Hizbullah's military wing on its list of terrorist organizations.

In an interview with the Saudi al-Yaum daily published on Tuesday, Eichhorst said the main reason for EU's decision in July was the deadly bombing that targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria a year earlier.

Calm prevailed on Tuesday in the northern city of Tripoli despite the rising tension between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh.

According to the state-run National News Agency, the army is deployed between the two neighborhoods, carrying out raids to detain violators and erecting checkpoints.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr issued on Monday a search and investigation warrant against Arab Democratic Party chief Ali Eid.

After the news of the warrant broke out, several supporters of Eid took to the streets of Tripoli to protest Saqr's decision.

Speaker Nabih Berri condemned the “vile” attack against a van carrying residents of the neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern city of Tripoli, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Monday.

He said: “The attack was aimed at creating strife in Lebanon, nothing more nothing less.”

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel hailed on Monday officials in the northern city of Tripoli for “responsibly” dealing with the bus attack, pointing out that two men involved in the incident were arrested.

Charbel praised in comments published in As Safir newspaper the Arab Democratic Party, which is mainly Alawite, al-Mustaqbal movement and several parties in Tripoli for denouncing the attack.

Hizbullah considered on Sunday that the attack on workers who hail from the Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen is a “very dangerous message,” urging an end to sectarian incitement.

"We condemn the attack on unarmed citizens, and torturing and shooting them in (the northern city of) Tripoli,” the party said in a released statement.

Tripoli figures condemned on Sunday the attack on Alawite men who hail from the northern Jabal Mohsen neighborhood, stating that this incident is “strange to the city's history.”

"We condemn the attack against unarmed citizens and we call on security forces to identify and prosecute the assailants,” Tripoli figures said in a released statement after a meeting at al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Mohammed Kabbara's house.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani warned on Sunday that “the governments of streets” will take control of Lebanon if the Lebanese rival parties failed to form a new cabinet.

In his message on the occasion of Islamic New Year, Qabbani said: “If a fair cabinet was not formed in Lebanon soon … then the governments of streets, neighborhoods and regions will be in charge.”

Al-Mustaqbal bloc leader MP Fouad Saniora condemned on Sunday the attack on residents of a rival neighborhood in the northern city of Tripoli, saying the perpetrators should be brought to justice.

“This heinous crime that targeted Lebanese civilians from Jabal Mohsen only serves Lebanon's enemies and reminds us of the suspicious crimes that it has been recently witnessing,” Saniora said in a statement.